Usually means: Consequences following a significant event.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. aftermath: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. aftermath: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aftermath: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aftermath: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aftermath: Vocabulary.com
  6. Aftermath, aftermath: Wordnik
  7. aftermath: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. aftermath: Wiktionary
  9. aftermath: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. aftermath: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. aftermath: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Aftermath, aftermath: Dictionary.com
  13. aftermath: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. aftermath: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Aftermath: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. aftermath: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. aftermath: Rhymezone
  19. aftermath: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. aftermath: Free Dictionary
  21. aftermath: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. aftermath: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. aftermath: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Aftermath (novel), aftermath: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aftermath: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Aftermath (novel), aftermath: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Aftermath, the aftermath: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (aftermath)

noun:  (obsolete, agriculture) A second mowing; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season.
noun:  That which happens after, that which follows, usually of strongly negative connotation in most contexts, implying a preceding catastrophe.

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