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presume

/pri-zoom/US // prɪˈzum //UK // (prɪˈzjuːm) //

推测,推定,推断,假定

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    pre·sumed, pre·sum·ing.

    • : to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
    • : Law. to assume as true in the absence of proof to the contrary.
    • : to undertake with unwarrantable boldness.
    • : to undertake without right or permission: to presume to speak for another.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    pre·sumed, pre·sum·ing.

    • : to take something for granted; suppose.
    • : to act or proceed with unwarrantable or impertinent boldness.
    • : to go too far in acting unwarrantably or in taking liberties: Do not presume upon his tolerance.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbmake assumption; believe
Forms: presumed, presuming

Examples

  • Now, if you head over to California’s database again, you will find filings going back to 2016, which I presume is the five-year limit for the site’s search function.

  • So I presumed there must be a lot of micrometeorites in the dust, and I was right.

  • Lawmakers even presumed that anyone receiving the now-celebrated Pell Grants would have to borrow to pay for what those limited scholarships did not cover.

  • His face—presuming it’s a man—is covered by a mask, and the hood of his sweatshirt obscures the rest of his head.

  • It can’t be presumed that developers know about BundlePhobia, Lighthouse, or SEO for that matter.

  • The next month she married the man who, it is safe to presume, was her final husband.

  • But it is a mistake to presume that because these voters are Obama loyalists they are Democratic Party loyalists.

  • I presume most Republicans will be clever enough to mute impeachment talk before November.

  • Somebody (a monk, I presume) has put a dummy dressed in a guard's uniform inside.

  • How far that may be is unclear, though we can only presume that it would involve jail time for those tracked down.

  • I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.

  • I presume this path does not extend many miles without meeting impediments.

  • I presume there will be more middling and half middling yields within twenty miles of Paris than in all Belgium.

  • That Lannes would have emerged superior to these trials his previous career affords strong reason to presume.

  • I presume you know that Maria Theresa was a first-rate soldier; or, at least, she had the happy art of finding them.