eventuate

[ ih-ven-choo-eyt ]

/ ɪˈvɛn tʃuˌeɪt /

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verb (used without object), e·ven·tu·at·ed, e·ven·tu·at·ing.

to have issue; result.

to be the issue or outcome; come about.

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Origin of eventuate

1780–90; Americanism;<Latin ēventu(s) event + -ate¹

OTHER WORDS FROM eventuate

e·ven·tu·a·tion, noun

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How to use eventuate in a sentence

The overtures on this occasion eventuated in some negotiations, of which the Rev. Mr. Miley was the medium.
The Felon's Track|Michael Doheny
The tribes in this secluded region were then meditating the outbreak which eventuated the next year in the Black Hawk War.
Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820|Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Possibly this emotion was accentuated by a trifling circumstance that eventuated as I sought to alight from the hack.
Fibble, D. D.|Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
More quarrels for the same cause eventuated here, and then Beers left her for a while.
Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations|William Howe

If they had understood the situation in Palestine and Syria, how differently this war might have eventuated!
With the Turks in Palestine|Alexander Aaronsohn

British Dictionary definitions for eventuate

eventuate

/ (ɪˈvɛntʃʊˌeɪt) /

verb (intr)

(often foll by in) to result ultimately (in)

to come about as a resultfamine eventuated from the crop failure

Derived forms of eventuate

eventuation, noun

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