English-French translations for aftermath

• aboutissement
• contrecoup
  Il en va de même pour les déclarations des dirigeants albanais du Kosovo dans le contrecoup immédiat de ces accès de violence, disant qu’ils n’accepteraient rien de moins que l’indépendance. So were statements by Kosovar Albanian leaders in the immediate aftermath of the violence that they would not accept anything short of independence.
• regain
• séquelles

Definition of aftermath

• A second mowing; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season
• That which happens after, that which follows. Has a strongly negative connotation in most contexts, implying a preceding catastrophe

Examples

• In contrast to most projections of the aftermath of nuclear war, in this there is no rioting or looting.

Related words

• after
• thereafter
• afternoon
• aftergrass
• hereafter
• afterwards
• aftertaste
• afterlife
• afters
• afterward