ensue
/ɪnˈsuː/ verb C2- To occur afterwards, as a result or effect. · Give three freshmen six bottles of wine, and hilarity will ensue.
He/she/it ensues · Past ensued · Past participle ensued · -ing form ensuing
Verb forms
- Base form
- ensue
- He/she/it
- ensues
- Past
- ensued
- Past participle
- ensued
- -ing form
- ensuing
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No one at Villefort’s doubted that a duel would ensue from it.
Then the steps retreated, and the voices died away in the distance; the noise of the door, with its creaking hinges and bolts ceased, and a silence more sombre than that of solitude ensued,—the silence of death, which was all-pervasive, and struck its icy chill to the very soul of Dantès.
Darcy only smiled; and the general pause which ensued made Elizabeth tremble lest her mother should be exposing herself again.
“Yes, Miss Elizabeth, you will have the honour of seeing Lady Catherine de Bourgh on the ensuing Sunday at church, and I need not say you will be delighted with her.
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