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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
affect, assume, bring, call for, comprehend, comprise, contain, embody, embrace, encompass, entail, have, implicate, imply, involve, lead to, presume, presuppose, require, take, take in
Dictionary Results for subsume:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
subsume
    v 1: contain or include; "This new system subsumes the old one"
    2: consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule
       or principle [syn: subsume, colligate]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Subsume \Sub*sume"\, v. t. [Pref. sub- + L. sumere to take.]
   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.
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         To subsume one proposition under another. --De Quincey.
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         A principle under which one might subsume men's most
         strenuous efforts after righteousness.   --W. Pater.
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