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(v)
(transitive) To assume or suggest to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose.
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(transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of.
To obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
(transitive) To get.
To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
To become involved or interested in (a discussion, issue, or activity); to come to enjoy (something).
To deceive, cheat, lie.
(transitive, uncommon) To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right.
To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
(transitive) To lift; to raise.
(transitive) To put on clothing; to dress (oneself) in an article of personal attire.
To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
(transitive) To don (clothing, equipment, or the like).
(transitive) To have on:
(transitive, intransitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
(n)
The belief of something based upon reasonable evidence, or upon something known to be true.
To assume some truth without proof, usually for the purpose of reaching a conclusion based on that truth.
(intransitive) To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.
(ambitransitive) To assume or assert tentatively on uncertain grounds.
To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
(transitive, of a proposition) To have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence.
(intransitive) To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
(transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.
(transitive) To think about seriously.
(transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.
(transitive) To explicitly mention (something) as a possibility for consideration, often to recommend it.
(transitive) To reach (a conclusion) by applying rules of logic or other forms of reasoning to given premises or known facts.
(transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
To intend.
(transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).
To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
(ambitransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen
To perceive (a situation or event) in advance.
(transitive) To know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
To calculate roughly, often from imperfect data.
(transitive) To possess, own.
(transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in.
Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.
(transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.
(transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
(transitive) To stand or act in the place of; to perform the duties, exercise the rights, or otherwise act on behalf of
(intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
(transitive) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
(colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
(transitive, law) To make (a bill) into law.
To yield assent; to accord; to acquiesce, agree, consent; to adapt oneself, to conform.
(transitive) To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a place, into the mind, or into consideration
(transitive) To pronounce.
(transitive) To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
(transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.
(transitive) To include (something) as a part.
(copulative, rather formal, followed by an adjective or a noun) begin to be; turn into (often with permanent states).
(ambitransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.
(transitive) To finish successfully.
(transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
(transitive) To make whole or entire.
To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
(transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
(transitive) To create.
(heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
(intransitive or with 'that' clause or 'to' infinitive) To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
(intransitive) To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.
To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
(transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
(transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
(intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
(intransitive) To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.
(transitive) To resist or endure (something) successfully.
To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something).
(transitive) To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on.
To absorb again.
(transitive) To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
(transitive) To maintain, or keep in existence.
To collect normally separate things.
(ambitransitive) To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
(law) The accumulated legislation, legal acts, and court decisions which constitute the total body of European Union law.
To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
(intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
(transitive) To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material; to bring to bear.
To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller or less by some amount.
(transitive) To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.
To change place.