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forebode

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Verb (usu participle)
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fore=bode

CIDE DICTIONARY

forebodev. t. [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to announce. See Bode v. t.].
  •  To foretell.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
    "His heart forebodes a mystery."  [1913 Webster]
    "Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death."  [1913 Webster]
    "I have a sort of foreboding about him."
Syn. -- To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.
forebodev. i. 
     To foretell; to presage; to augur.  [1913 Webster]
    "If I forebode aright."  [1913 Webster]
foreboden. 
     Prognostication; presage.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

forebode, v.tr.
1 betoken; be an advance warning of (an evil or unwelcome event).
2 have a presentiment of (usu. evil).

THESAURUS

forebode

apprehend, be imminent, betoken, bludgeon, bode, bulldoze, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, comminate, croak, denounce, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foreshow, foretell, foretoken, forewarn, fortune-tell, give advance notice, guess, hariolate, have a premonition, have a presentiment, intimidate, look black, look threatening, lower, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, menace, omen, portend, preapprehend, precaution, predict, prefigure, premonish, prenotify, presage, prewarn, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, soothsay, speculate, tell fortunes, tell in advance, tell the future, threaten, utter threats against, vaticinate, warn

ROGET THESAURUS

forebode

Prediction

VB predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate, tell fortunes, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, advise, forewarn, presage, augur, bode, abode, forebode, foretoken, betoken, prefigure, preshow, portend, foreshow, foreshadow, shadow forth, typify, pretypify, ominate, signify, point to, usher in, herald, premise, announce, lower, hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope, bid fair, promise, lead one to expect, be the precursor, extrapolate, project.


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