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Grammar : Verb
Spell : ih-ven-choo-eyt
Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈvɛn tʃuˌeɪt



Definition of eventuate

Origin :
  • 1789, from Latin eventus, past participle of eventire (see event).
  • verb be a consequence
Example sentences :
  • How frantic, as if all things were about to eventuate, remembering not that nothing ends.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • We do not say in English that things seem, or appear, or eventuate, or even that they are; but that they do.
  • Extract from : « Instigations » by Ezra Pound
  • If the latter be true, why all this display, designed to eventuate in nothing?
  • Extract from : « The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 » by J. T. Headley.
  • It cannot eventuate on a large scale, and it should not if it could.
  • Extract from : « Health Work in the Public Schools » by Leonard P. Ayres and May Ayres
  • Obviously the repetition of the past can only eventuate in the repetition of the present.
  • Extract from : « Cambridge Essays on Education » by Various
  • It may eventuate in a Quimby as naturally as the poetic faculty eventuates in a Kipling.
  • Extract from : « The Church of St. Bunco » by Gordon Clark
  • A mistake at this time may eventuate in permanent results which will render the mother an invalid for all the rest of her life.
  • Extract from : « What a Young Husband Ought to Know » by Sylvanus Stall
  • I never saw one-fourth the number of Americans together that did not eventuate in a score or two of fights.
  • Extract from : « Nasby in Exile » by David R. Locke
  • They look upon it as a fatality which is certain to eventuate, no matter what steps may be taken.
  • Extract from : « The Pig » by Sanders Spencer
  • Spiritual despotisms and religious superstitions never did and never will eventuate in a capacity for democracy.
  • Extract from : « Prowling about Panama » by George A. Miller

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