eventualize

present singular third person eventualizes · participle present eventualizing · participle past eventualized · past eventualized

1. intransitiveTo take place or occur.

   Doctors are not accustomed to dwell pessimistically on the future problems of their patients. If the problem does eventualize, it can be handled then.

   1991, J. Michael Barrett, James Stanley McQuade, Determining disability and personal injury damage: medical evaluation for trial lawyers

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   True, there might be a slight difficulty in the shame, but as regarded the sin, there was no item of that kind ever scored down on the Bar-slate that had its own familiar peg whereon to hang such tales of evil as must pain and shock every pure mind—tales of devilish import, eventualizing, in most instances, most grievously and banefully—in rags, want of food, perhaps in crime, and almost, for certain, in pauperism!

   1855, J. Dacres Devlin, Rules & Regulations of the Ballast-Heavers' Brotherhood of the Port of London

   In thus intuscepting the fundamental and initiative momenta of itself, the Self cognizes the exercise of three classes of powers which eventualize as forces, and which are still further analyzable into three simple discrete elementary powers.

   1866, George W. Thompson, The Living Forces of the Universe

   Synonyms: come about, happen, occur, take place, transpire