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SUPERVENE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does supervene mean?
• SUPERVENE (verb)
The verb SUPERVENE has 1 sense:
1. take place as an additional or unexpected development
Familiarity information: SUPERVENE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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... he / she / it supervenes Past simple: supervened
Past participle: supervened
-ing form: supervening
Sense 1
Meaning:
Take place as an additional or unexpected development
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "supervene" is one way to...):
come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
supervention (a following on in addition)
Context examples
Gradually weariness grew upon me; a numbness, an occasional stupor, fell upon my mind even in the midst of my terrors, until sleep at last supervened and in my sea-tossed coracle I lay and dreamed of home and the old Admiral Benbow.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
At that moment a little accident supervened, which seemed decreed by fate purposely to prove the truth of the adage, that misfortunes never come singly, and to add to their distresses the vexing one of the slip between the cup and the lip.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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