Definition of "subsumes" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of subsume. (verb)

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• "He became almost invisible in The Talented Mr. Ripley, a mousy killer who subsumes the identity of the people he destroys."
• "With the Palestinian game at the United Nations seemingly on track, divisions between Hamas and Fatah as deep as ever, and Hamas continuing to call for the erasure of Israel, Israel is more likely than not to hunker down and reinvigorate a siege mentality that subsumes all other concerns under the security rubric."
• "In the author's Unified Field Theory of Cinema, Hollywood finally subsumes all things and all events, no matter how far they might occur from California."