subsume
to consider or include (an idea, term, proposition, etc.) as part of a more comprehensive one.
to bring (a case, instance, etc.) under a rule.
to take up into a more inclusive classification.
Origin of subsume
1Other words from subsume
- sub·sum·a·ble, adjective
Words Nearby subsume
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How to use subsume in a sentence
Not doing anything, researchers at Tufts University found, will allow costs to mount so much that they will subsume today’s Caribbean economies even without the shock of devastating storms.
Barbados Resists Climate Colonialism in an Effort to Survive the Costs of Global Warming | by Abrahm Lustgarten | July 27, 2022 | ProPublicaWhat’s more, my ordinary aches—tendinitis here, a stiff joint there, persistent ailments that irk me every day—had been subsumed by more acute pains.
What Did I Learn from the Swampy Muck of the Florida Trail? That I’m a Kink Hiker. | Patty Hodapp | February 27, 2022 | Outside OnlineWhat Putin is saying is nothing less than imperialism, a desire to subsume a neighboring country that wants a better future into his own empire.
'Ukraine Deserves Its Own Future.' The Pain of Watching From Afar as Putin Attacks My Country | Valeriia Voshchevska | February 24, 2022 | TimeMore the point, Instagram appears poised to prioritize Reels potentially to the point of subsuming its other video products.
Instagram’s video ad-revenue sharing program has underwhelmed participating publishers | Tim Peterson | February 14, 2022 | DigidayThe Future of TV Briefing this week looks at how TikTok has been subsumed into video makers’ approaches to other platforms, including Instagram, Snapchat and even YouTube.
Future of TV Briefing: How TikTok has influenced media companies’ videos on platforms like Snapchat and YouTube | Tim Peterson | September 8, 2021 | Digiday
Our deepest fear is that Mom will somehow subsume and destroy us, even as we depend on her for everything.
I don't think ISIS will subsume itself to the Naqshabandi's.
He may finally be ready to subsume his ego and ideology for the sake of his country.
Netanyahu may finally be ready to subsume his ego and ideology for the sake of his country.
Similarly the actions of animal life depend upon and subsume the laws of organic matter.
On the Genesis of Species | St. George MivartIn the same way the actions of a self-conscious moral agent, such as man, depend upon and subsume the laws of animal life.
On the Genesis of Species | St. George MivartHence the problem arises, 'How is it possible to subsume objects of empirical perception under pure conceptions?'
Kant's Theory of Knowledge | Harold Arthur PrichardWe are invited to subsume questions of law and of the application of law under the social ideal of the time and place.
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law | Roscoe PoundIn the next place I subsume a cognition under the condition of the rule (and this is the minor) by means of the judgement.
The Critique of Pure Reason | Immanuel Kant
British Dictionary definitions for subsume
/ (səbˈsjuːm) /
to incorporate (an idea, proposition, case, etc) under a comprehensive or inclusive classification or heading
to consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle
Origin of subsume
1Derived forms of subsume
- subsumable, adjective
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