supervene
Americanverb (used without object)
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supervenes,
present (3rd person singular)
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supervened,
past participle, past
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supervening
present participle
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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
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
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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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 Robert Jennings
She waited patiently for a pause to supervene.
From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
Complications may arise, the strength may fail, the secretions may become too abundant, and asphyxia may ensue; emphysema may show itself, or catarrhal pneumonia may gradually supervene.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
How and whence to these thoughts, these strong probabilities, the ascertaining vision, the intuitive knowledge may finally supervene, can be learned only by the fact.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
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
To shew how frequently insanity supervenes on parturition, it may be remarked, that from the year 1784 to 1794 inclusive, 80 patients have been admitted, whose disorder shortly followed the puerperal state.
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
There were cases, however, whose prognosis seemed good but where death supervened suddenly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Misgivings deepened as we drew near; alarm supervened.
From Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge
Soon dysentery supervened, and on the 12th of January 1519 he passed away in the sixtieth year of his age.
From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Eleanor E. Tremayne
The heavy snowfall which had supervened upon the arrival of the doctor and the police inspector at Heath Hover had lasted a couple of days, and had utterly obliterated all and every trace.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Bertram Mitford
The woman was doomed, no mortal could survive her wounds, but she might linger for days while high fever and inflammation supervened.
From The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado by Cyrus Townsend Brady
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
Of pneumonia supervening consumption complicated with other diseases, the main symptom of which was insanity.
From Quaint Epitaphs by Various
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 George H. (George Henry) Napheys
Another objection that may possibly be made to my views, is, that instances might be adduced where lactation had been persevered in for a very long period, without any ill effects supervening.
From Remarks on the Subject of Lactation by Edward Morton
It has even been affirmed that while under this treatment the patient may eat glucose-forming foods without fear of glycosuria supervening.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
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