supervene
Americanverb (used without object)
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to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on orupon ).
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to ensue.
verb
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to follow closely; ensue
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to occur as an unexpected or extraneous development
Other Word Forms
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Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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supervenesimple
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supervenessimple
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have supervenedperfect
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has supervenedperfect
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am superveningprogressive
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are superveningprogressive
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is superveningprogressive
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have been superveningperfect progressive
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has been superveningperfect progressive
Past
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supervenedsimple
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had supervenedperfect
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was superveningprogressive
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were superveningprogressive
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had been superveningperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of supervene
1640–50; < Latin supervenīre, equivalent to super- super- + venīre to come
Example Sentences
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When the attack is more severe hypostatic congestion is very likely to supervene.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
They all said there was atrophy of the muscles of the left leg, and predicted that complete paralysis would surely supervene.
From Quacks and Grafters by Unknown
If the feeding of a liberal allowance of grain be suddenly commenced, fatal diarrhœa will often supervene.
From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert
In cases where grave nervous symptoms supervene and the typhoid condition is developed the facies assumes all the characteristics of that state.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
For when any of these Evacuations supervene, the Fever vanishes; the Patient resumes his Strength, and perfectly recovers.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
Mr Blackwell told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that animals should be "stunned at the time of death", which would render them "insensible to pain until death supervenes".
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2014
From the moment one hoists sail, cuts the engine and bears away downwind to Bequia, euphoria supervenes.
From Time Magazine Archive
For when traditional justice fails, retributive justice supervenes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whenever starvation supervenes, and the usual hospital liquid diet is really semistarvation, the bacteria normally present in the bowel increase enormously and produce large amounts of flatus.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this latter case, which is often realised—e.g. lichens, leguminous plants and the organisms in their root-nodules, mycorrhiza, etc.—we leave the domain of disease, which supervenes indeed if the other symbiont is lacking.
From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall
There were cases, however, whose prognosis seemed good but where death supervened suddenly.
From Time Magazine Archive
I recognised but too truly the sensations that supervened.
From In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
Later still, the Royal justices in eyre supervened.
From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Brakelond, Jocelin de
But a change for the worst supervened, and after four days of intense suffering, sweetly and patiently borne, Mary died, and Godwin was again alone.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas
There had been a slight hæmorrhage, but a sudden collapse had supervened.
From The life and teaching of Karl Marx by Beer, M.
Indeed, the attorney general’s job, at times, is to tell the president “no” because of the supervening demands of the law.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2017
Her child became emaciated; and diarrhœa supervening, my professional services were required.
From Remarks on the Subject of Lactation by Morton, Edward
Numerous cases are on record of convulsions supervening upon violent passion in the nurse.
From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by Napheys, George H. (George Henry)
And such is matter, which my its nature is ever averse from the supervening irradiations of form.
From An Essay on the Beautiful From the Greek of Plotinus by Taylor, Thomas
Of pneumonia supervening consumption complicated with other diseases, the main symptom of which was insanity.
From Quaint Epitaphs by Various
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