Assume vs Abuse - What's the difference?
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To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
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, title= To take on a position, duty or form.
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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
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, title= To take on in appearance; to adopt (a feigned attribute, etc.).
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
*(Beilby Porteus) (1731-1809)
*:ambition assuming the mask of religion
To receive or adopt.
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company.
To adopt an idea or cause.
Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
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Misuse; improper use; perversion.
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(obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
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Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
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(now, rare) Catachresis.
Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse one's authority.
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To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
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To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
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To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of a drug than was prescribed for recreational reasons; to take illegal drugs habitually.
(archaic) To violate; defile; to rape.
(obsolete) Misrepresent; adulterate.
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(obsolete) To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
* 1651-2 , , "Sermon VI, The House of Feasting; or, The Epicures Measures", in The works of Jeremy Taylor , Volume 1, page 283 (1831), edited by Thomas Smart Hughes
(transitive, obsolete, Scotland) Disuse.
As verbs the difference between assume and abuse
is that assume is to authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof while abuse is to put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse one's authority.As a noun abuse is
improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.assume
English
Verb
(assum)Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.}}
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa”(season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) , passage=So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoAnagrams
* ----abuse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) abusen, then from either (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- All abuse , whether physical, verbal, psychological or sexual, is bad.
- Liberty may be endangered by the abuses' of liberty, as well as by the ' abuses of power.
citation, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
Usage notes
* Typically followed by the word of .Synonyms
* invective, contumely, reproach, scurrility, insult, opprobriumDerived terms
* abusefully * abuse of distress * alcohol abuse * child abuse * drug abuse * self-abuseVerb
(abus)- The tellers of news abused the general.
- (Spenser)
- When Cyrus had espied Astyages and his fellows coming drunk from a banquet loaden with variety of follies and filthiness, their legs failing them, their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud and abused by a double object