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Definition: Supervene |
SuperveneVerb1. 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Supervene |
| English words defined with "supervene": Primary amputation ♦ Supervened, Supervening, Survene ♦ To come on. (references) |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "supervene": supervene upon. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 sobrevir (cut in, intervene, occur), seguir-se (ensue), acontecer logo depois. (various references) 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) следовать за (be followed by, precede by, string along with, succeed), вытекать (ensue, follow up, ooze, overflow, sluice out, sluiceway). (various references) nailaziti. (various references) sobrevenir (arrive, ensue, Excel, intervene). (various references) tillkomma (appertain to, fall on, fall to, reside in). (various references) 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) відбуватися слідом. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | supervenire. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "supervene": supervened, supervenes. (additional references) | |
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"Supervene" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: superteen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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| 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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