(intransitive) To occur afterwards, as a result or effect.
ensued
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for ensued.
Editorial note
Ancient battles usually lasted one day and continued till one side broke, whereupon a rout ensued.
Quick take
(intransitive) To occur afterwards, as a result or effect.
Meaning at a glance
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for ensued.
verb
(intransitive) To occur afterwards, as a result or effect.
Example sentences
Ancient battles usually lasted one day and continued till one side broke, whereupon a rout ensued.
He transfered the main repository to another contributor for maintaining and then open-source drama ensued.
Large amounts of human suffering ensued (and still does) as a result of what happened.
Deadline was met, backpedaling ensued and no bonus awarded after the fact.
I at one time had the email escher@apple.com Hilarity ensued because everyone thought I was Christopher Escher, Apple's chief public spokesman.
Conflicts ensued and some plugins got pulled into the core project.
As expected, panic ensued among the subreddit's moderators.
>A further controversy ensued in 1992 when it was discovered that the painting had been displayed upside-down following its acquisition.
I assume the disaster is in the 'global' forest fire that would have ensued, keeping temperatures higher than habitable in major areas of the planet and then producing a cooling effect due to the soot emitted.
But there is little dispute that that assassination and those attacks took place on those dates, what the basic nature of those events were and what major changes ensued in the aftermath.
I also have helped some companies that ran into serious datetime management issues when they worked with strings that led engineers to assume a certain timezone, others to assume others, and chaos ensued.
You can say it all you want, but once the polycentric system fell to the cultural perks and a new monopoly given to the church and chaos ensued, the people begged the king of Denmark for a relative stability.
Quote examples
Not a place for intimacy with friends." Shame, that privacy and intimacy (plus the voyeurism that ensued) is what made FB so popular in the first place.
This community identified that this new software was a "game changer" early on, and many arguments ensued with regard to how this new AI will impact the world.
Lashing out is almost never the best response, a simple "wtf" would almost certainly have ended there on the spot, and a constructive public discussion could have ensued.
My response (and the arguments contained in the conversation that ensued) was to the claim that the "founding fathers" would have liked for other nations to check-and-balance the US; that they would have liked there to be political interdependence, even veto power from other nations.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use ensued in a sentence?
Ancient battles usually lasted one day and continued till one side broke, whereupon a rout ensued.
What does ensued mean?
(intransitive) To occur afterwards, as a result or effect.
What part of speech is ensued?
ensued is commonly used as verb.