forebode
IPA: fɔrbˈoʊd
noun
- (obsolete) prognostication; presage
verb
- To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
- 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.
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Examples of "forebode" in Sentences
- Who is Pan and what exactly does his name forebode?
- Instead, the building forebode claustrophobia and sadness.
- Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not.
- The current crop of appointments forebode a continuation ofNeo-con imperialism with Neo-Lib trimmings.
- This just shows certain resentment in the party for Obama, and could forebode him having trouble keeping discipline in the ranks.
- 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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