subsumed

[ suhb-soomd ]

adjective

1. considered under, or taken up into, a larger or more inclusive category, proposition, entity, rule, term, etc.:

   With irrigated agriculture as the primary use for the Tribal award monies, the court also recognized subsumed uses including livestock, domestic, and commercial purposes.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of subsume.

Word History and Origins

Origin of subsumed¹

subsume ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

In his first season, Stefanski rebuilt Mayfield and injected order into a franchise subsumed by chaos.

From Washington Post

HuffPost maintains a three-person sales team, but its ad sales efforts have largely been subsumed into the broader Verizon Media portfolio, effectively relegating HuffPost into a generic source of news inventory, according to agency executives.

From Digiday

It’s a mistake to be trying to look for one language that will replace or subsume all others.

From Nautilus

Not coincidentally, the Dodgers typify the way big-market clubs have subsumed the lessons learned by smaller teams scraping for every edge.

From FiveThirtyEight

Even better, his company wasn’t subsumed into a large entity as likely would have happened with a typical M&A transaction.

From TechCrunch

Some of stars profiled in this book were so representative of a time that their very iconography subsumed them whole.

From The Daily Beast

The specifics of any local struggle in that battle were less important than the wider struggle within which they were subsumed.

From The Daily Beast

What we get, at Murray Guy, is a community of communal objects, their differences subsumed in the collective.

From The Daily Beast

In this view, no politics are local, all is subsumed in a clash of civilizations.

From The Daily Beast

The attempts to provoke Muslim hysteria were largely subsumed by the excitement of the Arab Spring that began early last year.

From The Daily Beast

In this respect, the things which are the most distant from the Good are the objects of sense, which are subsumed under the Soul.

From Project Gutenberg

Otherwise, the latter three might be subsumed under relation, which possesses more extension than they.

From Project Gutenberg

This entire social complex has been subsumed under the principle that law is immanent in all history.

From Project Gutenberg

We need to realise more clearly that the lower is never—ought never to be—eliminated but rather subsumed by the higher.

From Project Gutenberg

Until he had subsumed the article under certain categories he had come to accept, appreciation was impossible for him.

From Project Gutenberg