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   subsume

   /səbˈsjuːm/

   verb

   • 1. include or absorb (something) in something else: "most of these phenomena can be subsumed under two broad categories"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (in the sense ‘subjoin, add’): from medieval Latin subsumere, from sub- ‘from below’ + sumere ‘take’. The current sense dates from the early 19th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. subsumable adjective

   Scrabble Points: 11

   • S

     1

   • U

     1

   • B

     3

   • S

     1

   • U

     1

   • M

     3

   • E

     1

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