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supervene

[soo-per-veen] / ˌsu pərˈvin /


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Diarrhoea may also be present at this time, or may not supervene until later.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Swoonings which supervene in Diseases, accompanied with great Evacuations, are cured like those which are owing to Weakness; and Endeavours should be used to restrain or moderate the Evacuations.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

If the Distemper rises to a violent Degree indeed, a Delirium and Convulsions supervene.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

Should peritonitis supervene after the operation on account of bacillary infection, the bowels should be quickly made to act by repeated doses of Epsom salts in hot water.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

Both the age of puberty and that of the menopause may supervene earlier or later according to local conditions.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various

Mr Blackwell told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that animals should be "stunned at the time of death", which would render them "insensible to pain until death supervenes".

From BBC Mar. 6, 2014

Whenever starvation supervenes, and the usual hospital liquid diet is really semistarvation, the bacteria normally present in the bowel increase enormously and produce large amounts of flatus.

From Time Magazine Archive

For when traditional justice fails, retributive justice supervenes.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the moment one hoists sail, cuts the engine and bears away downwind to Bequia, euphoria supervenes.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is often observed among the prodromata of the disease, and when these are absent supervenes directly after the chill.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

There were cases, however, whose prognosis seemed good but where death supervened suddenly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soon dysentery supervened, and on the 12th of January 1519 he passed away in the sixtieth year of his age.

From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Eleanor E. Tremayne

The woman was doomed, no mortal could survive her wounds, but she might linger for days while high fever and inflammation supervened.

From The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado by Cyrus Townsend Brady

Financial distress supervened, and the popular discontent culminated in revolution.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

I recognised but too truly the sensations that supervened.

From In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Indeed, the attorney general’s job, at times, is to tell the president “no” because of the supervening demands of the law.

From Washington Post Jul. 26, 2017

There she died last Friday evening, having improved in her cardiac symptoms, but pneumonia supervening a week ago.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James

His feeling of intense enmity to Dockwrath was beginning to wear away, and one of modified friendship for the whole family was supervening.

From Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope

In the earlier part of spring and in fall, there is little fear of diarrhœa supervening.

From The Dog by Dinks

Even Astræa brightened, and grew better; her fretfulness was disappearing, and a tone of contentment and cheerfulness supervening upon it.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various




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