Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To result ultimately.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To culminate; close; terminate: as, the agitation against slavery eventuated in civil war.
  • To fall out; happen; come to pass; result as an event or a consequence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To come out finally or in conclusion; to result; to come to pass.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb come out in the end

Etymologies

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From Latin ēventu(s) +‎ -ate.

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