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subsumed

subsumed is the simple past and past participle of subsume.

Meaning of subsume

Verb

subsume (third-person singular simple present subsumes, present participle subsuming, simple past and past participle subsumed)

  1. (transitive) To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.
    • Near-synonym: comprise
    Synonyms:
    comprise
  2. (transitive) To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule.
    Synonyms:
    colligate

Questions about subsumed

What is subsumed the simple past and past participle of?
Subsumed is the simple past and past participle of subsume.

Words near subsumed in the dictionary

  1. subsum
  2. subsumability
  3. subsumable
  4. subsumation
  5. subsume
  6. subsumed
  7. subsumer
  8. subsumers
  9. subsumes
  10. subsumeth
  11. subsuming

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subsumed (page history and authors); subsume (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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