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supervene
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Definition:To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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a numbness, an occasional stupor, fell upon my mind even in the midst of my terrors, until sleep at last supervened and in my sea-tossed coracle I lay and dreamed of home and the old Admiral Benbow.
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1882)
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by becoming stabilised, so consistently that the strain of waiting having hardly time to relax before a fresh reason for waiting supervened, there was no longer a single minute in the day in which I was not in that state of anxiety which it is so difficult to bear even for an hour.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]
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Hubbard, I am informed, is suffering from an attack of stomach poisoning, which has supervened during the night. He says that he does not know what can have caused it.
Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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