Subsume
(i) To subsume malnutrition, we grow maize, beans, soya beans, sweet potatoes, cassava, pumpkins and many others.
(ii) Charitable organisations and welfare societies should take the initiative to subsume begging.
(iii) The actions of animal life depend upon and subsume the laws of organic matter.
The word ‘subsume’ means ‘to include something or someone as part of a larger group’. Only in iii, the word is correctly used.
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