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Definition: ENSUED |
ENSUEDImperative & past participle1. Of Ensue |
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": Cassio ♦ Frankum's Night ♦ Hatteraick ♦ Little Gentleman in Velvet ♦ Mah-abadean Dynasty. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Panic ensued within these walls (Mary Poppins; writing credit: P.L. Travers; Bill Walsh) | |
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Books | |
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| "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)." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | A gloomy silence ensued. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Destructive wars ensued, which have of late only been terminated. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This past April a coup replaced the government and a period of political and economic uncertainty ensued. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 83.65% | 133 | 27,614 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 16.35% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Total | 100.00% | 159 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. | ||
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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ENSUED" (pronounced ensuw"d) |
| 3 | -s uw" d | pursued, sued. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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