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See Also:

• past tense form of subsume.
• past participle of subsume.

subsumed

American  

[suhb-soomd] / səbˈsumd /

adjective

1. considered under, or taken up into, a larger or more inclusive category, proposition, entity, rule, term, etc..

   With irrigated agriculture as the primary use for the Tribal award monies, the court also recognized subsumed uses including livestock, domestic, and commercial purposes.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of subsume.

Etymology

Origin of subsumed

subsume ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

The fake world has subsumed the real world, eradicating it and leaving nothing in its place.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Matsumoto emphasizes the institutional aspect of our times by showing how the identities of individuals have become subsumed by their jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

But pollster David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data, says they have been subsumed by the "existential threat" of the trade war with the US.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2025

Of course, we consume these things differently since streaming took over the world, and arguably since man first learned to program a VCR, with network shows subsumed into the ocean of time-shifted picking and choosing.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2025

“It was a routinized way of trying to learn the cases. Not Joe. He wouldn’t have any of that. But he had that quality which we always vaguely subsumed under ‘thinking like a lawyer.’

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell