GRE vocabulary
Subsume
To include or absorb (something) in something else.
Example
"The new legislation will subsume a number of smaller regulations under a single, comprehensive law."
Etymology
From Latin subsumere 'take up, seize,' from sub- 'below' + sumere 'take.'
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