supervene
verb (used without object)
to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on orupon ).
supervenes
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present tense formof supervene (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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
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
For when traditional justice fails, retributive justice supervenes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later, when the stage of stupor supervenes, it is very important to see that the patient obtains a full supply of water.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
