supervene \soo-pur-VEEN\, intransitive verb:
1. To take place or occur as something additional, extraneous, or unexpected (sometimes followed by ‘on’ or ‘upon’).
2. To follow immediately after; to ensue.
After all, doctors outside the hospital can pick up the pieces and readmission is always possible, provided death doesn’t supervene.
—Theodore Dalrymple, “How to win a million pounds”, New Statesman, April 7, 2003
