aftermath

nounsituation following an event, occurrence

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Word Origin & History

1520s, originally a second crop of grass grown after the first had been harvested, from after + -math, a dialectal word, from Old English mæð "a mowing, cutting of grass" (see math (n.2)). Figurative sense by 1650s. Cf. French regain "aftermath," from re- + Old French gain, gaain "grass which grows in meadows that have been mown," from a Germanic source, cf. Old High German weida "grass, pasture"

Example Sentences foraftermath

But in her sweet way she had given him her woman's aftermath of love.

The aftermath, however, does not come up to the expectations of the good Medium.

A friendship which is the aftermath of love is the shadow after the substance.

We hear about "The jack of all trades," but the aftermath of the jack of all trades is "master of none."

I need not detail the aftermath of our emergence from the atom.

With one aftermath of the Pilgrimage of Grace he had yet to deal.

And to the aftermath that follows for all who win too easily and too soon.

"That might be no more than the aftermath of deep shock," Cal said.

In Norfolk this is called "aftermath eddish," and "rowans" or "rawins."

But these things were the aftermath of a harvest reaped by half a dozen sentences.

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