English dictionary

subsume

/s/@/b's/u/m/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

verb

contain or include

verb.stative

Examples
This new system subsumes the old one.

Source: WordNet 3.0
consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle

verb.cognition

Synonyms colligate

Source: WordNet 3.0
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.

verb

Source: webster1913