ENSUING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ensuing mean? 

• ENSUING (adjective)
  The adjective ENSUING has 1 sense:

1. following immediately and as a result of what went before

  Familiarity information: ENSUING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENSUING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Following immediately and as a result of what went before

Context example:

ensuing events confirmed the prediction

Similar:

succeeding (coming after or following)

 Context examples 

But as the ensuing week commenced, I thought of the information which M. Krempe had given me concerning the lectures.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I am afraid the whole of the ensuing week tried his patience.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

An abnormal season of intense glacial melt in 2002 triggered multiple distinct changes in the physical and biological characteristics of Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys over the ensuing decade.

(Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctica's Dry Valleys, National Science Foundation)

The transiting moon will cooperate by being in Cancer, a fellow water sign, making this day—and the ensuing weekend—pure magic.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The study found that pooled meltwater does fracture ice; however, ensuing chain reactions appear short-ranged.

(Reframing the dangers Antarctica's meltwater ponds pose to ice shelves and sea level, National Science Foundation)

Composed of more than 1,000 images taken during the 2019 Thanksgiving holiday and carefully assembled over the ensuing months, the composite contains 1.8 billion pixels of Martian landscape.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Its Highest-Resolution Panorama Yet, NASA)

It was her public place: there she met her acquaintance, heard a little news, talked over the badness of the Portsmouth servants, and wound up her spirits for the six days ensuing.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Cell Fate Control involves intercellular, cellular, and intracellular processes that regulate the generally irreversible commitment of a multipotent cell(s) to a specific ensuing cell development lineage among alternate potential lineage options.

(Cell Fate Control, NCI Thesaurus)

They measured the animals' fruit consumption as well as the ensuing seed dispersal and seed viability.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

In the ensuing interval, I told Miss Mills that she was evermore my friend, and that my heart must cease to vibrate ere I could forget her sympathy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)