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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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)
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
Downstairs he told Colonel Mandeville: "He may pull through if meningitis does not supervene."
From A Soldier's Son by Butler, Maude M.
She waited patiently for a pause to supervene.
From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
If the Distemper rises to a violent Degree indeed, a Delirium and Convulsions supervene.
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
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
From the moment one hoists sail, cuts the engine and bears away downwind to Bequia, euphoria supervenes.
From Time Magazine Archive
When muttering delirium supervenes this subsultus tendinum becomes constant, and extends to other parts of the body.
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
It came in direct train of action from that "Yes, Roly" that Maggie had heard, separated from it by the days of high fever, the mind wandering, that almost immediately supervened.
From The Happy Warrior by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)
Rumours of disaster spread among the ranks, and wild panic supervened.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
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
He might have told of the encounter at the time, but for the home calamity that supervened upon it; that drove away other topics.
From A Life's Secret A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
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
An arbiter who has accepted office may be compelled by an action in court of session to proceed with his duty unless he has sufficient cause, such as ill-health or supervening interest, for renouncing.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
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
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
Cold and rain together, supervening in that hour of the spirit’s default, may well have made me light-headed; nor was it easy to distinguish the tooth of self-reproach from that of genuine hunger.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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