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Aftermath   /ˈæftərmˌæθ/   Listen
Aftermath

noun
1.
The consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event).  Synonyms: backwash, wake.  "In the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured"
2.
The outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual.  Synonym: consequence.






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"Aftermath" Quotes from Famous Books



... finished, the crisis of the drama was over, and Josephus, doubtless following his source, relaxes the narrative to digress about affairs in Rome and the East. The last book of the Wars is episodic and disconnected. It is a kind of aftermath, in which the historian gathers up scattered records, but does not preserve the dramatic character of the history. He had apparently here to fall back on his own feeble constructive power, and was hard put to it to ...
— Josephus • Norman Bentwich

... region. U.S. efforts in Afghanistan have been complicated by the overriding focus of U.S. attention and resources on Iraq. Several Iraqi, U.S., and international officials commented to us that Iraqi opposition to the United States—and support for Sadr—spiked in the aftermath of Israel's bombing campaign in Lebanon. The actions of Syria and Iran in Iraq are often tied to their broader concerns with the United States. Many Sunni Arab states are concerned about rising Iranian influence in Iraq and the region. ...
— The Iraq Study Group Report • United States Institute for Peace

... State that labor disputes are not merely the concern of the two parties to the labor contract. Society has finally come to realize that, in the complex of the modern State, it also is vitally concerned, and, in despair at thousands of strikes every year, with their wastage and their aftermath of bitterness, it has attempted to interpose its ...
— The Armies of Labor - Volume 40 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Samuel P. Orth



Words linked to "Aftermath" :   sequella, payoff, effect, resultant, reward, fruit, issue, termination, train, upshot, event, corollary, result, comeupance, wages, deserts, comeuppance, outcome, final result, backwash



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