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ENSUE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Example:

result in tragedy

Synonyms:

ensue; result

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

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

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 Context examples: 

The study found that pooled meltwater does fracture ice; however, ensuing chain reactions appear short-ranged.

(Reframing the dangers Antarctica's meltwater ponds pose to ice shelves and sea level, National Science Foundation)

They measured the animals' fruit consumption as well as the ensuing seed dispersal and seed viability.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

Cell Fate Control involves intercellular, cellular, and intracellular processes that regulate the generally irreversible commitment of a multipotent cell(s) to a specific ensuing cell development lineage among alternate potential lineage options.

(Cell Fate Control, NCI Thesaurus)

Perindoprilat inhibits ACE and, thus, the conversion of angiotensin I to angiotensin II; consequently, angiotensin II-mediated vasoconstriction and angiotensin II-stimulated aldosterone secretion from the adrenal cortex are inhibited and diuresis and natriuresis ensue.

(Perindoprilat, NCI Thesaurus)

One can imagine what answer he made, how he received his present, and what a blissful state of things ensued.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The transiting moon will cooperate by being in Cancer, a fellow water sign, making this day—and the ensuing weekend—pure magic.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

There was also a postscript to the effect that though The Billow carried no free-list, it took great pleasure in sending him a complimentary subscription for the ensuing year.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The two professors, their tempers aggravated no doubt by their injuries, had fallen out as to whether our assailants were of the genus pterodactylus or dimorphodon, and high words had ensued.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Upon hydrolysis, perindopril erbumine is converted to its active form perindoprilat, inhibiting ACE and the conversion of angiotensin I to angiotensin II; consequently, angiotensin II-mediated vasoconstriction and angiotensin II-stimulated aldosterone secretion from the adrenal cortex are inhibited and diuresis and natriuresis ensue.

(Perindopril Erbumine, NCI Thesaurus)

PI3K inhibitor BGT226 specifically inhibits PI3K in the PI3K/AKT kinase (or protein kinase B) signaling pathway, which may trigger the translocation of cytosolic Bax to the mitochondrial outer membrane, increasing mitochondrial membrane permeability; apoptotic cell death may ensue.

(PI3K Inhibitor BGT226, NCI Thesaurus)