supervene upon

Questions about supervene upon

What does supervene upon mean?

supervene upon means "take the place or move into the position of".

What is another word for supervene upon?

Close synonyms include supplant, replace, supersede. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is supervene upon a common word?

supervene upon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.