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ENSUED

Definition: ENSUED

ENSUED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Ensue

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ENSUED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

 

Crosswords: ENSUED

English words defined with "ENSUED": shamefacedly. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ENSUED": CassioFrankum's NightHatteraickLittle Gentleman in VelvetMah-abadean Dynasty. (references)

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Modern Usage: ENSUED

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Panic ensued within these walls (Mary Poppins; writing credit: P.L. Travers; Bill Walsh)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: ENSUED

DomainTitle

Books

  • City on Fire: The Forgotten Story of a Disaster That Destroyed a Town and the Landmark Legal Battle That Ensued (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: ENSUED
 

"Fire hydrant" by Kd Kelly
Commentary: "Truck knocked over fire hydrant, much water ensued. (if you use this i'd love to hear from you -- thanks)."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Use in Literature: ENSUED

TitleAuthorQuote

Tangled Tale

Carroll, Lewis

A gloomy silence ensued.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ENSUED

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Widespread concern among the public ensued. (references)

Civil Liberties

Vietnam

A fight ensued in which one person using a spear reportedly was killed by gunfire when he attacked a soldier. (references)

Economic History

Pakistan

Negotiations to form a coalition government broke down and a civil war ensued. (references)

Kyrgyzstan

Violent confrontations ensued, and a state of emergency and curfew were introduced. (references)

Human Rights

Cameroon

An argument ensued, and the gendarme shot Sanda. (references)

Afghanistan

Taliban security forces intervened, and a clash ensued. (references)

Nepal

The Army subsequently confronted the insurgents, and a standoff ensued. (references)

Indigenous People

Bangladesh

Clashes between Bengalis and tribals ensued, injuring 18 persons, including 1 policeman. (references)

Minorities

India

A few days of rioting ensued in the cities of Amritsar, Kanpur, and Baramulla followed, resulting in extensive property damage and several deaths. (references)

Political Economy

Liberia

The U.S. and Liberia have a long-standing historical relationship that was sorely tested by the civil conflict, and the political violence, human rights abuses, and corruption that ensued. (references)

Political Rights

Trinidad and Tobago

In January a month-long standoff ensued when the President refused to confirm seven of the Prime Minister's ministerial and senatorial appointments, asserting that the Prime Minister was exceeding his authority in appointing defeated election candidates. (references)

Trade

Finland

Tighter competition ensued from Finland's EU entry, accelerating cost cutting in the sector. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: ENSUED

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

James Monroe

1817-1825Destructive wars ensued, which have of late only been terminated.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981This past April a coup replaced the government and a period of political and economic uncertainty ensued.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: ENSUED

"ENSUED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 83.65% of the time. "ENSUED" is used about 159 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)83.65%13327,614
Lexical Verb (past participle)16.35%2668,323
                    Total100.00%159N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ENSUED

Language Translations for "ENSUED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

接着而来 (Ensue, Ensuing). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

virisi vilkas keskustelu (an animated discussion ensued), väittely sukeutui vilkkaaksi (a lively discussion ensued), syntyi kiusallinen vaitiolo (a painful silence ensued, there was a painful silence). (various references)

   

German

  

gefolgt (followed, suited), folgte (followed). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

csend állt be (silence ensued). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ensueday.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: ENSUED

Misspellings

"ENSUED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eanmund, enbue, enque, enset, ensiped, ensized, ensu, ensume, enue, enuse, mesneux, Neusiedl, Nsue, unassumed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "ENSUED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "ENSUED" (pronounced ensuw"d)
3-s uw" dpursued, sued.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: ENSUED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: endues.

Words within the letters "d-e-e-n-s-u"

-1 letter: denes, dense, dunes, endue, ensue, needs, nudes, suede, undee.

-2 letters: dees, dene, dens, dues, dune, duns, ends, need, nude, seed, seen, send, sene, sned, sued, unde, used.

-3 letters: dee, den, due, dun, eds, end, ens, nee, nus, see, sen, sue, sun, uns, use.

-4 letters: de, ed, en, es, ne, nu, un, us.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-n-s-u"
 

+1 letter: dengues, denudes, dudeens, duendes, dueness, endures, ensured, unsewed, unsexed, vendues.

 

+2 letters: bedunces, censured, censused, danseuse, dentures, denuders, detinues, ensouled, enthused, eudemons, needfuls, nudeness, nutsedge, rudeness, sederunt, seminude, sequined, subvened, sundered, sunderer, undersea, underset, unerased, unleased, unmeshed, unrested, unsealed, unseamed, unseared, unseated, unseeded, unseized, unserved, untested, unversed, uredines, vendeuse.

 

+3 letters: audiences, burdeners, coendures, counseled, crudeness, danseuses, debunkers, dejeuners, demilunes, denatures, denounces, denudates, deuterons, duecentos, duenesses, dulnesses, dungarees, dunnesses, durnedest, duvetines, duvetynes, encrusted, endosteum, entrusted, eudaemons, geepounds, inductees, nauseated, nebulised, nutsedges, peduncles, prudences, pudencies, queendoms, queenside, refunders, reinduces, reinfused, reinsured, resounded, sauntered, scunnered, sederunts, sequenced, sequinned, spelunked, spodumene, stoutened, subpenaed, subtended, succedent, sunderers, surrender, suspended, suspender, unbemused, unblessed, underages, underdoes, undereats, undergoes, underlets, underlies, underseas, undersell, undersets, underside, undersize, underused, undesired, undressed, undresses, unexcused, unexposed, unleashed, unpleased, unpressed, unrevised, unscented, unscrewed, unsecured, unsettled, unshelled, unsphered, unsteeled, unstepped, vendeuses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Digital Art
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Quotations: Speeches
9. Usage Frequency
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Bibliography


  

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