subsume
- v contain or include
This new system subsumes the old one - v consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle
- It seems easier for everyone, however, to give three cheers and subsume the flames that came from Brixton and Manchester and Liverpool in the more congenial firelight of the .
- He spent the second half of his career trying to poke holes in the theory and to subsume it in a unified theory that would restore certainty and determinism to physics.
- Her fans laud her for refusing to subsume her identity to her husband's political ambitions.