ENSUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ensue mean? 

• ENSUE (verb)
  The verb ENSUE has 1 sense:

1. issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end

  Familiarity information: ENSUE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENSUE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they ensue    ... he / she / it ensues   
Past simple: ensued   
Past participle: ensued   
-ing form: ensuing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

ensue; result

Context example:

result in tragedy

Hypernyms (to "ensue" is one way to...):

prove; turn out; turn up (be shown or be found to be)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ensue"):

come (happen as a result)

be due; flow from (be the result of)

fall out; follow (come as a logical consequence; follow logically)

come after; follow (come after in time, as a result)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
It ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

In the ensuing interval, I told Miss Mills that she was evermore my friend, and that my heart must cease to vibrate ere I could forget her sympathy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Hemorrhage decreases the mean systemic filling pressure, therefore decreasing venous return; as a result, the cardiac output falls below normal, and shock ensues.

(Hemorrhagic Shock, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

And he proceeded to inform us that his departure from England was now definitively fixed for the ensuing year.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The horror of a mind like Fanny's, as it received the conviction of such guilt, and began to take in some part of the misery that must ensue, can hardly be described.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Darcy only smiled; and the general pause which ensued made Elizabeth tremble lest her mother should be exposing herself again.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

An abnormal season of intense glacial melt in 2002 triggered multiple distinct changes in the physical and biological characteristics of Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys over the ensuing decade.

(Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctica's Dry Valleys, National Science Foundation)

There could be no doubt that, as it was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any misfortune should occur to it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I am sorry to relate what ensued.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But as the ensuing week commenced, I thought of the information which M. Krempe had given me concerning the lectures.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Composed of more than 1,000 images taken during the 2019 Thanksgiving holiday and carefully assembled over the ensuing months, the composite contains 1.8 billion pixels of Martian landscape.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Its Highest-Resolution Panorama Yet, NASA)