Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To indicate the likelihood of; portend: harsh words that foreboded estrangement.
- transitive v. To have a premonition of (a future misfortune).
- intransitive v. To prophesy or predict.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
- n. prognostication; presage
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Prognostication; presage.
- intransitive v. To foretell; to presage; to augur.
- transitive v. To foretell.
- transitive v. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To bode or announce beforehand; prognosticate; presage, especially something unfortunate or undesirable: as, the public temper forebodes war; the clouds forebode rain.
- To foresee; be prescient of; feel a secret premonition of, especially of something evil.
- Synonyms Predict, Presage, etc. (see foretell); to augur, portend, betoken, foreshadow, be ominous of.
- To prophesy; presage.
- n. Presage; prognostication.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. make a prediction about; tell in advance
Etymologies
Examples
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Who is Pan and what exactly does his name forebode?
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Instead, the building forebode claustrophobia and sadness.
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Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not.
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The replacement of Mottaki by Salehi could forebode changes in Iran's foreign policy, said the Ayandeh Web site, which is close to former intelligence officials.
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This just shows certain resentment in the party for Obama, and could forebode him having trouble keeping discipline in the ranks.
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The current crop of appointments forebode a continuation ofNeo-con imperialism with Neo-Lib trimmings.
Interview with Steve Hildebrand; Steve, Did you tell Progressives to Shut the F Up?
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No, I am not suggesting that America's anxieties forebode an authoritarian future.
Saving the American Left: The Case for a New Progressive Creed
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Anc when day broke he sat expecting his son and waited till noon, but he came not; whereat his heart forebode separation and was fired with fears for Kamar al-Zaman; and he cried, “Alas! my son!” and he wept till his clothes were drenched with tears, and repeated with a beating heart,
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King fell sick and his fluttering heart forebode him of translation to the Mansion of Eternity.
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This may work for now but it does not forebode well for the next generations.
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