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verb (used with object), sub·sumed, sub·sum·ing.
1.
to consider or include (an idea, term, proposition, etc.) as part of a more comprehensive one.
2.
to bring (a case, instance, etc.) under a rule.
3.
to take up into a more inclusive classification.
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Example Sentences
- He has technique to burn, but he also has a chameleonlike ability to subsume himself in the music.
- He could subsume anything to his phrasing, with his rhythmic hesitations, elisions of words and sudden swells.
- The self-interests of the corporation do not subsume the self-interests of the rest of us.
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Word Origin & History
subsume
1530s, from Mod.L. subsumere "to take under," from L. sub "under" + sumere "to take."
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