to include something or someone as part of a larger group:
Subsume
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To take up into or under, as individual under species, speciesunder genus, or particular under universal; to place (any onecognition) under another as belonging to it; to include undersomething else.To subsume one proposition under another. De Quincey.A principle under which one might subsume men's most strenuousefforts after righteousness. W. Pater.
Subsume meaning & definition 1 of Subsume.
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Include or absorb (something) in something else.
Subsume meaning & definition 2 of Subsume.
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to include something or someone as part of a larger group:
Subsume meaning & definition 3 of Subsume.
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