supervene
verb (used without object)
to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on orupon ).
has supervened
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present perfectof supervene (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Erysipelas has supervened upon the injury; and the object is to avoid a gathering, and to stay the erysipelas where it is.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster
Hubbard, I am informed, is suffering from an attack of stomach poisoning, which has supervened during the night.
From The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett
The operator generally visits the infant in the afternoon of the operation, and carefully inspects the dressings, to see that no hæmorrhage has supervened.
From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Peter Charles Remondino
Civil war has supervened, the slaves are being freed, sugar is no longer a bonanza, and the rich man of yesterday is the bankrupt of to-day.
From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Maturin Murray Ballou
The two younger have been mothers, and in both insanity has supervened on childbearing. 7th.—J.
From Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by John Haslam
