supervene
verb (used without object)
to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on orupon ).
supervened
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past participleof supervene.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof supervene.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
superveneverb (used without object)to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on orupon ).
Example Sentences
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There were cases, however, whose prognosis seemed good but where death supervened suddenly.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
She had also laboured under a similar attack seven years before, which, like the present, supervened upon the birth of a child.
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
Scarcely, however, had the pope and emperor felt their positions assured, and preparations had been thus made to take advantage of the situation, when a catastrophe supervened which defied all human calculation.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
His wound had bled considerably during the journey; but the effusion had stopped when the faintness supervened.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth
