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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Whenever this Method has not been observed, and the Accidents described § 223 supervene, the Distemper must be treated like an Inflammation in its first State, and all must be done as directed § 225.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
According to Murchison, paralysis does not supervene until several weeks after the commencement of convalescence.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Muscular paralyses, hemiplegic and paraplegic attacks, albuminuria, diarrhoea, and the inflammations of chronic type affecting the thoracic organs may each supervene, and either greatly prolong convalescence or precipitate a fatal issue.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
You cannot absolve psychology as if it stood independent of ethics or religion, nor can aesthetic considerations merely supervene on moral.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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
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
For when traditional justice fails, retributive justice supervenes.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the moment one hoists sail, cuts the engine and bears away downwind to Bequia, euphoria 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 acute cutaneous glanders or farcy, premonitory symptoms resemble those of ordinary acute glanders, which indeed is usually present as well, and always supervenes before farcy terminates in death.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
There were cases, however, whose prognosis seemed good but where death supervened suddenly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other troubles supervened, and when he arrived in England he found his picture in such a state that he was compelled to abandon it and begin again.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
The night before toothache had deprived him of sleep, an attack of fever supervened, and six months of harsh imprisonment had left him little physical endurance.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
I recognised but too truly the sensations that supervened.
From In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Thus, both in New England and in New York, there supervened a period of divided councils and enfeebled administration, and this at the precise moment when the colonies were about to encounter new perils.
From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur
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
‘A convulsion, or hiccup, supervening on a copious discharge of blood is bad.’
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone
Even Astræa brightened, and grew better; her fretfulness was disappearing, and a tone of contentment and cheerfulness supervening upon it.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
Hæmorrhages of the Nose, supervening in inflammatory Fevers, commonly prove a favourable Crisis; which Bleeding we should carefully avoid stopping; except it becomes excessive, and seems to threaten the Patient's Life.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
At the end of the straggling village stands the church with its square tower, a lofty grey stone building, with bits of fine decorated architecture about it, but much of churchwarden Gothic supervening.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
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