aftermath
AF-tur-math/ˈæf.tɚˌmæθ/UKAHF-tuh-math/ˈɑːf.təˌmæθ/
Pluralaftermaths
- 1The time and events that come after something bad, like a disaster or an accident.
Like the mess and damage left behind after a big storm passes through.
In the aftermath of the storm, families worked to rebuild their homes.
The aftermath of the fire left the whole street covered in ash.
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- 2A second crop of grass that grows in the same field after the first hay is cut.
Like the new grass that pushes up after you've already cut the lawn once.
The farmer turned his cows out to graze on the aftermath once the hay was in.
They were cutting aftermath on all sides, which gave the neighbourhood, this gusty autumn morning, an untimely smell of hay.
1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the CévennesHere, aftermath means the second crop of grass that grows after the first hay is cut.Note
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Origin
From after- plus math, which meant "a mowing."