Usually means: Follow as a result; happen.
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  1. ensue: Merriam-Webster
  2. ensue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ensue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ensue: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ensue: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ensue, ensue: Wordnik
  7. ensue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ensue: Wiktionary
  9. ensue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ensue: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ensue: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ensue, ensue: Dictionary.com
  13. ensue: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ensue: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ensue: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ensue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ensue: Rhymezone
  18. ensue: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ensue: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. ensue: FreeDictionary.org
  21. ensue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. ensue: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. ensue: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. ensue: Legal dictionary

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  1. ensue: Encyclopedia

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  1. ensue: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ENSUE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ensue)

▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To follow (a leader, inclination etc.).
▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To follow (in time), to be subsequent to.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To occur afterwards, as a result or effect.

Similar:
result, insue, supervene, take after, wait, follow, take, usher, stick with, lead, more...

Opposite:
follow, result, follow from

Types:
result, follow, occur, happen, arise, develop, more...

Phrases:
ensue from, ensue to follow, to ensue, more...

Adjectives:
serious, general, evil, fatal, next, severe, various, absolute, cardiac, further, sudden


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Similar:
result, insue, supervene, take after, wait, follow, take, usher, stick with, lead, more...

Opposite:
follow, result, follow from

Types:
result, follow, occur, happen, arise, develop, more...

Phrases:
ensue from, ensue to follow, to ensue, more...

Adjectives:
serious, general, evil, fatal, next, severe, various, absolute, cardiac, further, sudden



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