What is "assumes"

Usage examples of "assumes".

West Side, and like many risen plebes was driven by that reverse snobbism that assumes breeding to be a personality flaw.

Whoever he adopts will have the necessary blood to carry on his line, and as part of the adoption the new son assumes his name.

I have sworn not to fight a civil war on her soil if it assumes anything like the dimensions of the Italian War.

There are few things so ludicrous as the postures a man assumes while making love.

In Lesson Five, we very briefly touched on another form of the noun the accusative case, which is the form a noun assumes when it is the object of a verb.