Ensue

English

Verb

Ensue (third-person singular simple present Ensues, present participle ensuing, simple past and past participle ensued)

1. (obsolete) To follow ( a leader, inclination etc.).
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:

     to ripenesse of mans state they grew: / Then shewing forth signes of their fathers blood, / They loued armes, and knighthood did ensew, / Seeking aduentures [...].

2. To occur afterwards, as a result or effect.

   Take three freshmen, 6 bottles of wine, and hilarity will ensue.

Thesaurus

attend, become of, c, come about, come after, come next, come of, come on, come out, derive, develop, displace, emanate, end, eventuate, fall out, fare, follow, follow after, follow up, go after, inherit, issue, overtake, pan out, proceed, prove, prove to be, replace, result, stem, succeed, supervene, terminate, track, trail, turn out, unfold, work out

Pronunciation

• (Australia) IPA: /enˈsjʉː/
• (RP) IPA: /enˈsjuː/
• (GenAm) IPA: /ɛnˈsuː/
• Rhymes: -uː

Translations

to have as consequence

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Bosnian: slijediti (bs) Chinese: Mandarin: trad. 接踵而來, simpl. 接踵而来 (jiēzhǒng ér lái) Czech: please add this translation if you can Dutch: erop volgen (nl), daarop volgen (nl) Esperanto: rezulti (eo), sekvi (eo) Finnish: seurata (fi), olla seurauksena French: résulter (fr), découler (fr) Georgian: გაყოლა (ka) (gaqola)

German: folgen (de) Greek: επακολουθώ (el) (epakoloutho) Hungarian: következik (hu), származik (hu), ered (hu) Italian: seguire (it), conseguire (it) Japanese: 続く (ja) (tsuzuku) Portuguese: resultar (pt), seguir-se (pt) Russian: следовать (ru) (slédovat’) Spanish: seguirse (es), resultar (es) Swedish: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• seuen
• unsee