Definition of subsume in English:

verb

• Include or absorb (something) in something else.

  ‘most of these phenomena can be subsumed under two broad categories’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Teleological theories draw from the efforts of the individual agent to distinguish the real from the apparent good, and to harmonize conflicting impulses by subsuming them under a comprehensive conception of the good.’
  • ‘It is a kind of enveloping void that subsumes the senses into a kind of frozen present.’
  • ‘Three important elements are subsumed under the first branch of the test.’
  • ‘White suggested that causal beliefs subsume the notion of causal mechanism, but also include other concepts such as causal power, releasing condition, and liability.’
  • ‘On the one hand, in common usage, the term ‘grammar’ metonymically represents linguistic organization, even language itself, tacitly subsuming areas such as vocabulary and pronunciation.’
  • ‘Their art works, that comprise digital re-photographed reproductions, are an attempt to link memory and subject, subsuming memory as archival material that transcends barriers to be utilised globally.’
  • ‘One of the things I inferred from the article was that the author felt that de Beauvoir was somehow living the open relationship because it was what Sartre wanted, subsuming her own desires and mores to his, as it were.’
  • ‘He had come to discuss the Big One, the euro, which could become legal tender everywhere from the Shetlands to Sardinia, subsuming the pound, the Deutschmark, the franc and other EU currencies.’
  • ‘But with personal greed subsuming any sense of noblesse oblige or the national interest, it is time the hallowed romance of titled wealth was dispelled.’
  • ‘It is an admirable effort but it carries with it certain problems of style subsuming content.’
  • ‘Business leaders would lose no time in pointing out the obvious: that for business to succeed it has to be keenly attuned to a market place that subsumes myriad customer tastes, concerns and preferences.’
  • ‘At times of heightened threat perception, the assertion of values mounts and subsumes careful calculation of interests.’
  • ‘For me, at least, and surely for many others, perhaps more than is realized offhand, the entirety of the song is needed, and the entirety subsumes the particulars.’
  • ‘It subsumes mountain ranges, valleys and flatlands at an elevation range of more than 6,000 feet.’
  • ‘In this state of affairs one wonders why such a regime is subsumed under the heading of democracy and not domination?’
  • ‘This is yet another step along the way to the ultimate goal of the European Union where nation states are subsumed into a federal European super state.’
  • ‘What she wants or does not want is subsumed in absolute indifference and the great overarching project of finding the perfect negation of ego.’
  • ‘It's at the coast that the tensions of small-town life are subsumed by the thrill and excitement of surging surf.’
  • ‘Flat-out work subsumed normal existence to the extent that the cast barely believed they were living in the metropolis at all.’
  • ‘The duties of a Buddhist monk are subsumed, and, by extension, so is his connection to the master monk.’

  Synonyms

  include, encompass, embrace, contain, comprise, cover, incorporate, embody, comprehend, subsume, envelop