Dictionary Entry
subsume
subsume is a 7-letter English word with 3 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To take up into or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or particular under universal; to place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include under something else. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 15 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To take up into or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or particular under universal; to place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include under something else.
- 2verb
consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle
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- 3verb
contain or include
"This new system subsumes the old one"
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