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verb (v)

• contain or include(verb.stative)

  Example:
  This new system subsumes the old one.
  

  source: wordnet30
• consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle(verb.cognition)

  Synonym:
  colligate
  

  source: wordnet30
• To take up into or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or particular under universal; to place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include under something else.(verb)

  source: webster1913