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aftermath
/ˈæf.tɚˌmæθ/
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What does aftermath mean?
noun
- That which happens after, that which follows, usually of strongly negative connotation in most contexts, implying a preceding catastrophe.
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noun
- (obsolete) A second mowing; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season.
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Practice was not so much subordinated to knowledge as treated as a kind of tag-end or aftermath of knowledge.
For a hundred years the horses have rubbed against it while feeding in the aftermath.
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Writing or research work which progresses satisfactorily leaves me relatively fresh; unsuccessful efforts bring their aftermath of weariness.
There was also an amusing aftermath of this occasion, which Secretary Bryan himself confided to me several months later when I met him in Atlantic City.
On the right and left the tall, dark spruces spread their palm-like branches over it; but below it was a little meadow, green with clover aftermath, sloping down to the blue loop of the Grafton River.