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eventuate en · VERB

American English, from Latin ēventu(s) (“an event, happening”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), perhaps modeled after actuate.

(intransitive) To have a given result; to turn out (well, badly etc.); to result in.
- Enoch Powell appeared to insult the memory of Dr. King by making a speech warning that “colored” immigration to Britain would eventuate in bloodshed. 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 98:
- Is that to say we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the empancipation of the proletariat. 1847, Karl Marx (Writing in Northern Star), Marx Engels Collected Works, volume 6, page 290:
- These efforts would eventuate in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, yet another piece of legislation that struck at a principle of the New Deal order. 2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 5, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part II. The Neoliberal Order, 1970–2020:
(intransitive) To happen as a result; to come about.
- Reconciliation cannot eventuate or materialise until the proper legal procedures have been followed, that is without interference from external forces. 2004, Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau, Fiji Senate Speech, 22 October 2004

Spelling	Features	Source
eventuates	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
eventuated	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
eventuated	Tense=Past	lexicographic
eventuating	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic