0 to include something or someone as part of a larger group:
1 to include something in a larger group or a group in a higher position
There is an unavoidable and often unbearable density and diversity of musical practices that are routinely subsumed under the label 'popular music'.
Both kinds of opacity, non-surface-apparent and non-surface-true, are subsumed under sympathy theory.
If this tool is subsumed by other cultural influences, then the exclusive base of a country's nationalism will be undermined.
The problem of boredom as a health care issue has been subsumed under research on other complaints such as depression, apathy, or fatigue.
Assumption 1 is subsumed by assumption 3 and is redundant.
These traits are subsumed into collecting as a significant aspect of social identity, involving the acquisition of cultural capital, overlaid with a patina of nostalgia.
These potentially conflicting identities can then be subsumed under the monarch's benevolent patronage.
There are cases that fall under neither rubric but are subsumed by sympathy.
