Subsume Definition

səb-so͝om

subsumed, subsumes, subsuming

verb

subsumed, subsumes, subsuming

To classify or include in a more comprehensive category or under a general principle.

American Heritage

To include within a larger class, group, order, etc.

Webster's New World

To absorb (something) into or cause (something) to be overshadowed by something else.

American Heritage

To show (an idea, instance, etc.) to be covered by a rule, principle, etc.

Webster's New World

To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain under something else.

Wiktionary

Synonyms:

Origin of Subsume

From Late Latin subsumō, equivalent to the Latin sub- (“sub-") and sÅ«mō (“to take"), confer the English consume.

From Wiktionary
Medieval Latin subsūmere Latin sub- sub- Latin sūmere to take em- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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