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.
- 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.
- noun Presage; prognostication.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- 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.
- intransitive verb To foretell; to presage; to augur.
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.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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Instead, the building forebode claustrophobia and sadness.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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Instead, the building forebode claustrophobia and sadness.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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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.
Iran replaces foreign minister Thomas Erdbrink 2010
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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.
Joe Pantoliano: Stigma Ain't What It Used To Be Joe Pantoliano 2010
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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.
Iran replaces foreign minister Thomas Erdbrink 2010
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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? 2008
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