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ˈafter-eˌffect
[after- 7.]
A delayed effect; an effect following after an interval.
1817Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 226 The beneficial after-effects of verbal precision. 1927A. H. McNeile Introd. N.T. vii. 212 Christians at the capital were still feeling the after⁓effects of Nero's mad outburst. 1940‘G. Orwell’ Inside Whale 67 At the time this causes rebellion and vomiting, but it may have different after-effects in later life. 1949J. F. Embree in M. Fortes Social Structure 223 The after-effects of Military Government..live on long after the period of occupation. 1956A. H. Compton Atomic Quest v. 304 The second aftereffect is that from the..radioactive materials from the bomb itself. |