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EVENTUATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eventuate mean? 

EVENTUATE (verb)
  The verb EVENTUATE has 1 sense:

1. come out in the endplay

  Familiarity information: EVENTUATE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EVENTUATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they eventuate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it eventuates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: eventuated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: eventuated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: eventuating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Come out in the end

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "eventuate" is one way to...):

come out; turn out (result or end)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

event (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)


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