occur as an interruption or change to an existing situation:he had appendicitis and as complications supervened, refrained from work for months (as adjective supervening)any plan is liable to be disrupted by supervening events Philosophy (of a fact or property) be entailed by or consequent on the existence or establishment of another:the view that mental events supervene upon physical ones
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