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English to English verb
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contain or include |  | Example: This new system subsumes the old one
source: wordnet30
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consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle | | source: wordnet30
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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: webster1913
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