Definition of subsume
English to English verb - contain or include
This new system subsumes the old one.
source: WordNet 3.0 - consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle
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.
source: Webster 1913
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