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Eventuate

Eventuate \E*ven"tu*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Eventuated; p. pr. & vb. n. Eventuating.] To come out finally or in conclusion; to result; to come to pass.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
eventuate

1788, American English, from Latin eventus, past participle of eventire (see event). Related: Eventuated; eventuating.

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eventuate

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To have a given result; to turn out (well, badly etc.); to result (term: in). (from 18th c.) 2 (context intransitive English) To happen as a result; to come about. (from 19th c.)

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eventuate

v. come out in the end

Usage examples of "eventuate".

For the stubborn, mean lives that his ancestors lived, sweating in their dark clothes in the heat and dust of the Karoo, to eventuate in this: a young man sauntering around a foreign city, eating up his savings, whoring, pretending to be an artist!

The charges Plancus Bursa had threatened to bring against Metellus Scipio never eventuated.

It sometimes seemed as if Dracula could never be content until the imaginary Gemini spacecraft plunged into the Atlantic, killing both pilots, but when real flight began and absolutely no crisis eventuated for which Dracula had not prepared his crews, the astronauts began to generate a real affection for him.

Sphinx enclosure, the hollow I formed about me when I first crash landed on Earth and created human beings, a long, tiring process from the initial joining of nucleotides through the evolution of humans, through whom I could actuate my mental processes, and eventuating in the birth of Tuthmosis IV, on whom I believed I could rely, but consciousness has its own intrinsic imperatives, so here I was, anchored in this blank, vasty shoal, cut off from the stars my home, and utterly dependent on the ministrations of a punch press operator from Lockport, New York.

The trial of his new son-in-law never really eventuated, delayed by inauspicious omens, accusations of corrupt jurors, meetings of the Senate, agues and plagues.

A chemical attraction heighened by spiritual affinity that, givena different timetrack into a more compassionate parallel world, could have eventuated in-who knows what?

I spent the next little while explaining all that had eventuated since that tooth's taking residence in my head, and finished, "This being so, I implore you to get it hence.

If this affair eventuated in the stoppage of the modest subsidy allotted to the publication of the F.

I referred him to a Lokhar, again 'clarifying by acquiescence': as it eventuated, the wrong technique.

The usual progression from TWS to DWS to UWS is not reversible except in the initial phases, as the activation of additional units is cumulative, selective, and mutually reinforcing, and presumably eventuates in mass-activation of all units.