supervene

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To follow (something) closely, either as a consequence or in contrast. intransitive
    — The disease was regarded as pneumonia so far advanced that suppuration seemed to have supervened; bleeding, blisters, expectorants, and cathartics diminished the symptoms; the pulse continued frequent, hard, full, but always regular.
  2. To supersede.
  3. To be dependent on an earlier event.
  4. To be dependent on something else for existence, truth, or instantiation.
    — For instance, an idiosyncratic necessitist might claim that even if a river were not spatiotemporally located, it would still be ugly or beautiful in ways that do not supervene on anything else.
  5. To occur as an interruption or change to an existing situation.
    — The best work was after Bishops Stortford, as we attained 55 m.p.h. after Stansted, and were going well up the short bank when the Elsenham permanent way check supervened.

词形变化

supervenes present,singular,third-person supervening participle,present supervened participle,past supervened past

词汇关系

相关词
convene supervenience supervenient supervention

词源

From Latin supervenīre (“come over or upon, overtake”), from super (“above”) + veniō (“come”).
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