subrogate
(verb) substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured
Source: WordNet® 3.1
subrogate (third-person singular simple present subrogates, present participle subrogating, simple past and past participle subrogated)
(legal, transitive) To replace one person or thing with another.
Synonyms: substitute, surrogate
Source: Wiktionary
Sub"ro*gate, v. t. Etym: [L. subrogatus, p.p. of subrogare. See Surrogate.]
Definition: To put in the place of another; to substitute. Barrow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
5 June 2025
(verb) raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type; “underlay the plate”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
