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Supervene

Definition: Supervene

Supervene

Verb

1. Take place as an additional or unexpected development.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "supervene" was first used: 1647. (references)

Note: Supervene \Su`per*vene"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Supervened; present participle verb or noun Supervening.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: Supervene

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Addition

Become added, accrue; advene, supervene.

Eventuality

Verb: happen, occur; take place, take effect; come, become of; come off, comeabout, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be on foot, fall in; befall, betide, bechance; prove, eventuate, draw on; turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up; supervene, survene; issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course; pass off; (be past).

Posteriority

Verb: follow; after, come after, go after; succeed, supervene; ensue, occur; step into the shoes of.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Supervene

English words defined with "supervene": Primary amputationSupervened, Supervening, SurveneTo come on. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Supervene

"Supervene" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Supervene" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)100%7133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Supervene

Expression using "supervene": supervene upon. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Supervene

Language Translations for "supervene"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shkoj pas (chase, make love), rrjedh nga (wait on, wait upon). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ولى (ensue, follow, inaugurate, succeed), ‏وقع (be located, befall, come, come off, drop, dwell, fall, ground smb., happen, land, locate, place, position, rhythm, run, set one's hand to, sign, sign up, site, strike, subscribe, take place, tumble, underwrite), ‏تبع (dangle, direct, follow, go after, succeed, tread, tread on smb.'s heels), ‏عرض شيئا إضافيا, ‏أحدث (breed, brew, bring, bring forth, create, crop, effect, enact, engender, generate, give rise to, hatch, induce, inspire, make, mother, proceed, progress, provoke, send forth, wreck). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

последвам (be the result of, ensue, follow, go after, result), идвам като последица от. (various references)

   

Czech

  

objevit se (appear, arise, come along, come into being, come up, crop up, develop, emerge, peer, rise up), nastat (arrive, close in, come in, set in, turn up). (various references)

   

French

  

survenir. (various references)

   

German

  

hinzukommen (accrue, arrive, be added, ensue, join). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

επισυμβαίνω. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"תערב (interfere, mingle, mix, tamper), ל"פריע (cut in, disturb, get in the way, hamper, hinder, interfere, interrupt), לבוא לפתע, לבוא כתוספת. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rákövetkezik (to supervene), bekövetkezik (befall, come about, to come true, to eventuate, to occur, to supervene). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sopraggiungere (come, happen). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

upervenesay

   

Portuguese

  

sobrevir (cut in, intervene, occur), seguir-se (ensue), acontecer logo depois. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

surveni (happen, intervene), adãuga (accede, add, adjoin, affix, amplify, annex, append, attach, augment, complete, enclose, enlarge, extend, follow up with, prefix, schedule, superinduce, supplement, swell, tack). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

следовать за (be followed by, precede by, string along with, succeed), вытекать (ensue, follow up, ooze, overflow, sluice out, sluiceway). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nailaziti. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sobrevenir (arrive, ensue, Excel, intervene). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tillkomma (appertain to, fall on, fall to, reside in). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sonra olmak, izlemek (chase, come on, dog, eye, follow, follow in smb.'s wake, follow up, give chase, go by, hound, keep tabs on, monitor, monitorize, observe, pursue, shadow, tail, trace, track, trail, watch), hemen gelmek, gelivermek (happen on, happen upon, show up), eklenmek (be added, link). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

відбуватися слідом. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Supervene

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

supervenire. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Supervene

Derivations

Words beginning with "supervene": supervened, supervenes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Supervene" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: superteen. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Supervene

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-n-p-r-s-u-v"

-1 letter: revenues, unreeves.

-2 letters: eveners, prevues, revenue, unreeve, veneers.

-3 letters: ensure, enures, evener, nerves, peeves, pensee, peruse, preens, prevue, prunes, purees, reeves, reseen, revues, rupees, serene, severe, veneer, venues, vesper.

-4 letters: ensue, enure, epees, ernes, evens, neeps, nerve, never, neves, nevus, nurse, peens, peers, peeve, penes, perse, preen, prees, prese, prune, puree, purse, reeve, resee.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-n-p-r-s-u-v"
 

+1 letter: supervened, supervenes.

 

+3 letters: supervenient, unexpressive.

 

+4 letters: peradventures, repulsiveness.

 

+5 letters: percussiveness, persuasiveness, perviousnesses, previousnesses, superelevating, superelevation, superexpensive, supersensitive.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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