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Verb [English]

IPA: /ɪnˈsuː/ [US], /ɪnˈsjuː/ [UK], /ɪnˈʃuː/ [UK], /ɛnˈsjuː/ [UK], /ɛnˈʃuː/ [UK], /ɛnˈsjʉː/ [General-Australian] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ensue.wav [Southern-England] Forms: ensues [present, singular, third-person], ensuing [participle, present], ensued [participle, past], ensued [past]
Rhymes: -uː Etymology: From Old French ensu-, stem of some conjugated forms of ensivre (“follow close upon, come afterward”) (French ensuivre), from Latin īnsequere, from īnsequi (“to pursue, follow, follow after; come next”), from in- (“upon”) (see in-) + sequi (“follow”) (see sequel). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*sekʷ-|id=follow}}, {{uder|en|fro|-}} Old French, {{lang|fro|ensu-}} ensu-, {{m|fro|ensivre||follow close upon, come afterward}} ensivre (“follow close upon, come afterward”), {{m|fr|ensuivre}} ensuivre, {{uder|en|la|īnsequere}} Latin īnsequere, {{m|la|īnsequi||to pursue, follow, follow after; come next}} īnsequi (“to pursue, follow, follow after; come next”), {{m|la|in-||upon}} in- (“upon”), {{m|en|in-}} in-, {{m|la|sequi||follow}} sequi (“follow”), {{m|en|sequel}} sequel Head templates: {{en-verb}} ensue (third-person singular simple present ensues, present participle ensuing, simple past and past participle ensued)
  1. (obsolete, transitive) To follow (a leader, inclination etc.). Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-ensue-en-verb-VOPia87t
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To follow (in time), to be subsequent to. Tags: obsolete, transitive Synonyms (to be subsequent to): come after
    Sense id: en-ensue-en-verb-pZTtfl7W Disambiguation of 'to be subsequent to': 6 90 4
  3. (intransitive) To occur afterwards, as a result or effect. Tags: intransitive Synonyms (to occur afterwards): arise, follow Translations (to occur as consequence): последвам (posledvam) (Bulgarian), 接踵而來 (Chinese Mandarin), 接踵而来 (jiēzhǒngérlái) (Chinese Mandarin), následovat (Czech), vyplývat (Czech), plynout (Czech), følge (Danish), erop volgen (Dutch), daarop volgen (Dutch), rezulti (Esperanto), sekvi (Esperanto), seurata (Finnish), olla seurauksena (Finnish), résulter (French), découler (French), გაყოლა (gaq̇ola) (Georgian), folgen (German), ansetzen (German), erfolgen (German), nachfolgen (German), resultieren (German), sich ergeben (German), sich einstellen (German), eintreten (German), επακολουθώ (epakolouthó) (Greek), következik (Hungarian), származik (Hungarian), ered (Hungarian), seguire (Italian), conseguire (Italian), 続く (tsuzuku) (Japanese), etterfølge (Norwegian Bokmål), wynikać (Polish), następować (Polish), resultar (Portuguese), seguir-se (Portuguese), сле́довать (slédovatʹ) (Russian), slijediti (Serbo-Croatian), seguirse (Spanish), resultar (Spanish), bli följden (Swedish), ardından gelmek (Turkish), doğmak (Turkish), izlemek (Turkish), sonradan gelmek (Turkish), sonucu olmak (Turkish), takip etmek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-ensue-en-verb-LIL68F8K Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 16 79 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 13 25 62 Disambiguation of 'to occur afterwards': 1 5 93 Disambiguation of 'to occur as consequence': 7 6 87
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: follow, succeed Synonyms (to follow): carry out, follow, pursue
Disambiguation of 'to follow': 47 47 6

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          "word": "sich ergeben"
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          "word": "ered"
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          "sense": "to occur as consequence",
          "word": "seguire"
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          "roman": "tsuzuku",
          "sense": "to occur as consequence",
          "word": "続く"
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          "sense": "to occur as consequence",
          "word": "wynikać"
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          "word": "resultar"
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          "word": "сле́довать"
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        "2": "in-",
        "3": "",
        "4": "upon"
      },
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    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "in-"
      },
      "expansion": "in-",
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    },
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        "1": "la",
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        "3": "",
        "4": "follow"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sequel"
      },
      "expansion": "sequel",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old French ensu-, stem of some conjugated forms of ensivre (“follow close upon, come afterward”) (French ensuivre), from Latin īnsequere, from īnsequi (“to pursue, follow, follow after; come next”), from in- (“upon”) (see in-) + sequi (“follow”) (see sequel).",
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    {
      "form": "ensues",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ensuing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ensued",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ensued",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii",
          "text": "to ripenesse of mans state they grew: / Then shewing forth signes of their fathers blood, / They loued armes, and knighthood did ensew, / Seeking aduentures [...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1606, G. W. Justine, transl., The Historie of Justine",
          "text": "To ensue his example in doynge the like mischiefe.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To follow (a leader, inclination etc.)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "follow",
          "follow"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To follow (a leader, inclination etc.)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.11",
          "text": "Oh how many changes are like to ensue this reformation!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To follow (in time), to be subsequent to."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "follow",
          "follow"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To follow (in time), to be subsequent to."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Give three freshmen six bottles of wine, and hilarity will ensue."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The riding of B.R. coaches”, in Trains Illustrated, page 705",
          "text": "Nor, having married coach and bogie design successfully, does it follow that good riding will ensue, whatever the track carrying it—as the performance of B.R. standard coaches on flat-bottom, concrete-sleepered track bears witness.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To occur afterwards, as a result or effect."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "result",
          "result"
        ],
        [
          "effect",
          "effect"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To occur afterwards, as a result or effect."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈsuː/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈsjuː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈʃuː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛnˈsjuː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛnˈʃuː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛnˈsjʉː/",
      "tags": [
        "General-Australian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uː"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "to follow",
      "word": "carry out"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to follow",
      "word": "follow"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to follow",
      "word": "pursue"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to be subsequent to",
      "word": "come after"
    },
    {
      "word": "follow"
    },
    {
      "word": "succeed"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to occur afterwards",
      "word": "arise"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to occur afterwards",
      "word": "follow"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "posledvam",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "последвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "接踵而來"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiēzhǒngérlái",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "接踵而来"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "následovat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "vyplývat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "plynout"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "følge"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "erop volgen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "daarop volgen"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "rezulti"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "sekvi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "seurata"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "olla seurauksena"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "résulter"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "découler"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "gaq̇ola",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "გაყოლა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "folgen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "ansetzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "erfolgen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "nachfolgen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "resultieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "sich ergeben"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "sich einstellen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "eintreten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "ansetzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "epakolouthó",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "επακολουθώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "következik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "származik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "ered"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "seguire"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "conseguire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tsuzuku",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "続く"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "etterfølge"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "wynikać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "następować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "resultar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "seguir-se"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "slédovatʹ",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "сле́довать"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "slijediti"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "seguirse"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "resultar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "bli följden"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "ardından gelmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "doğmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "izlemek"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "sonradan gelmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "sonucu olmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to occur as consequence",
      "word": "takip etmek"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ensue"
}

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