MEANING
to judge the nature, quality, importance, or extent of something
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Words that belong together
- assess the evidence
- assess risk
- assess the impact
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The study assesses the policy's effect on small firms.
Before comparing the treatments, researchers assessed the initial risk.
These interviews help assess whether the intervention met local needs.
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Word forms
- Base
- assess / assesses
- Past tense
- assessed
- Past participle
- assessed
- Present participle
- assessing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- assess / assesses
- Present continuous
- am/is/are assessing
- Present perfect
- have/has assessed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been assessing
- Past
- assessed
- Past continuous
- was/were assessing
- Past perfect
- had assessed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been assessing
- Future
- will assess / assesses
- Future continuous
- will be assessing
- Future perfect
- will have assessed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been assessing
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Usage notes
Primary curation section: Academic. Often describes structured judgment, including risk or need, rather than a simple opinion. State the basis of assessment. assess; assesses; assessed; assessed; assessing. Related noun: assessment.
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