eventuate

Verb

eventuate (third-person singular simple present eventuates, present participle eventuating, simple past and past participle eventuated)

1. (intransitive) To have a given result; to turn out (well, badly etc.); to result in.
   • 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...1847, Karl Marx (Writing in Northern Star), Marx Engels Collected Works, volume 6, page 290
   • 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

   Synonyms:

   end up, result, turn out, occur, develop, ensue, materialize

2. (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

   Synonyms:

   come to pass, occur, transpire, bechance, befall, behap, belimp, betide, betime, beworth