what does supervene upon mean?
SUPERVENE UPON as VERB
- Meaning
- take the place or move into the position of
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- Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left
- the computer has supplanted the slide rule
- Mary replaced Susan as the team’’s captain and the highest-ranked player in the school
Hypernyms(s) supervene upon is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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