SUPERVENE UPON as VERB

  1. Meaning
    • take the place or move into the position of
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • 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 Hyponym(s) Derived(s)