subsume

Verb

Meaning

To take up into or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or particular under universal; to place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include under something else.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

colligate class have include take contain hold cover receive incorporated appropriate add involve absorbed combine
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Antonyms

twilight release decline delivery surrender descent
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Hypernyms

include

Related terms

subsumption subsumation

Examples

The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N. Charles Krauthammer

This new system subsumes the old one Source: Internet

First there is the sensibility, which supplies the mind with intuitions, and then there is the understanding, which produces judgments of these intuitions and can subsume them under categories. Source: Internet

Since those partaking of Gnosis were diverse in their individual backgrounds, it has occurred to some scholars that it might not be accurate to subsume them under the appellation of Gnostics. Source: Internet

SNOBOL4 patterns subsume BNF grammars, which are equivalent to context-free grammars and more powerful than regular expressions. Source: Internet

Mainstream media does not attempt to repress the truth, but rather subsume it. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

subsumability subsumable subsumation subsumer subsummit subsumption