Word Finder - ensues

definition

To follow (a leader, inclination etc.).

definition

To follow (in time), to be subsequent to.

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To occur afterwards, as a result or effect.

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Give three freshmen six bottles of wine, and hilarity will ensue.

Sometimes the rains fail altogether, and then a drought (secca) ensues, causing famine and pestilence throughout the entire region.

From time to time incidents arise which appeal to the Jewish sympathies everywhere and joint action ensues.

If we connect together in series a single Daniell's cell, a galvanometer, and two platinum electrodes dipping into acidulated water, no visible chemical decomposition ensues.

Certain substances, notably digitalis, lead, mercury and strychnine, exhibit what is called a cumulative action - that is to say, when small quantities have been taken over a period of time, poisoning or an excessive action suddenly ensues.

The large number of vegetable substances used as purgatives owe their action to an irritating effect upon the mucous membrane and the neuro-muscular apparatus of the bowel, whereby the secretions and peristalsis are more or less increased, as the result of which diarrhoea ensues.

There then ensues the James Bond "chase."

A fight ensues that eventually ends when one of the women brings a brick crashing down.

The Humaritt escapes, and Najica and the CRI team have to find this android before disaster ensues!

Much fairy mischief ensues, mischief which turns the lives of the mortals upside down with slapstick antics.

The Klingons also sent a second bounty hunter and a battle ensues, after which Archer is handed over to the Klingons.

If not--kindly relax that crablike clutch on my elbow before partial paralysis ensues.

Infection with the dengue virus is not normally life-threatening, but in a minority of cases the potentially deadly dengue haemorrhagic fever ensues.

If they do, great suffering inevitably ensues for all three people.

A heated debate and small amount of not so good-natured pushing ensues.

Another wild party ensues with Charlie swallowing a whistle and getting hiccups at the same time.

What ensues is a brilliant piece of situation comedy that I found hilarious.

A battle ensues which Buffy is clearly losing, but as all seems lost Giles appears to stop Willow.

There is much rejoicing, and a wild orgy of music and dance ensues.

Here Bukowski finds access to a rifle and ammo, and a bloody shootout ensues.

What you are saying is that when Kitty becomes a suffragette she neglects her daughter and ' tragedy ensues ', so to speak.

The pimp passes her on to another gangster and chaos ensues with rapid-fire dialog and absurd situations.

This bite usually results in tooth loss because the dog is unable to chew properly and gum disease ensues.

After maneuvering its way through comets, the StarSpeeder 3000 encounters a Star Destroyer ship, where a battle ensues.

Mr. Belvedere is actually the Giant Chicken and of course, the fight ensues.

When you do, a chase ensues and your goal then is to speed back to your garage for safety.

If more than one sphere lands on the same gate card, battle ensues.

Once this issue is proposed, controversy typically ensues, with some of the most vocal stakeholders touting the disadvantages of requiring students to dress uniformly.

More craziness ensues when the magazine "Hot Flash" is launched.

When accepting a job with group health benefits, a waiting period usually ensues.

The program airs like a documentary, but of course this is reality TV so the focus is on the drama that ensues when old high school secrets and emotions come back to haunt the people attending the reunion.

Like most of the installments in this show, wealthy women are followed around by cameras and inevitably drama ensues.

There is set up at once a certain hydrostatic pressure, due to the turgidity which ensues upon such absorption, and the extensible cell wall stretches, at first in all directions.

As the sentence is about to be carried into execution Lancelot and his kinsmen come to her rescue, but in the fight that ensues many of Arthur's knights, including three of Gawain's brothers, are slain.

A violent reaction ensues with phosphorus and sulphur, and many metals are oxidized by it, some with incandescence.

When zygospores and oospores are produced a new cell-wall is also formed, but a long period of rest ensues.

Concentrated nitric acid has also very little action, but with the dilute acid a vigorous action ensues.

If the water be soapy, and especially if it contain a small proportion of milk, coalescence ensues without the help of electricity.

On receipt of the tidings of Mordred's treachery, Gawain accompanies Arthur to England, and is slain in the battle which ensues on their landing.

When zoospores come to rest, a new cell is formed and germination ensues at once.

But otherwise there ensues a conflict in which the opposed presentations comport themselves like forces and mutually suppress or obscure each other.

Next ensues a long epoch of obscurity.

Summer sees the lotus (renge) convert wide expanses of lake and river into sheets of white and red blossoms; a comparatively flowerless interval ensues until, in October and November, the chrysanthemum arrives to furnish an excuse for fashionable gatherings.

In the r3th century this undeveloped stage has passed, and a fine, but still restrained, quality of engraving ensues, which, like all the allied arts of that century, charms with its simple and unpretending precision.