WAKE

n. 1 track, trail, aftermath, path, backwash, wash, bow wave; trace, spoor, scent The wake from the passing boats damages the docks No matter where he went, they followed in his wake. 2 in the wake of. following (on or upon), after, subsequent to; as a result or consequence of, on account of, because of, owing to, by virtue of In the wake of the law's enactment, scores of abortions were performed