Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To indicate the likelihood of; portend.
- intransitive verb To have a premonition of (a future misfortune).
- intransitive verb To prophesy or predict.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Presage; prognostication.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To foretell; to presage; to augur.
- transitive verb To foretell.
- transitive verb 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.
- noun obsolete Prognostication; presage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device). - noun obsolete
prognostication ;presage
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a prediction about; tell in advance
Etymologies
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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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Instead, the building forebode claustrophobia and sadness.
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Instead, the building forebode claustrophobia and sadness.
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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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Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not.
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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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