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Forebode

Forebode Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Forebode? [v] make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Forebode: anticipate \| call \| foretell \| predict \| prognosticate \| promise Related Terms \| Find terms related to 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 See Also \| augur \| bet \| calculate \| forecast \| guess \| hazard \| outguess \| prophesy \| read \| secondguess \| vaticinate \| venture \| wager Forebode In Webster's Dictionary \Forebode"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foreboded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Foreboding}.] [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to announce. See {Bode} v. t.] 1. To foretell. 2. 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. His heart forebodes a mystery. --Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of C[ae]sar's death. --Middleton. I have a sort of foreboding about him. --H. James. Syn: To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken. \Forebode"\, v. i. To fortell; to presage; to augur. If I forebode aright. --Hawthorne. \Fore*bode"\, n. Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]

Forebode Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Forebode?

[v] make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election"

Forebode In Webster's Dictionary

\Fore*bode"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foreboded}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Foreboding}.] [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to
announce. See {Bode} v. t.]
1. To foretell.

2. 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.

         His heart forebodes a mystery.        --Tennyson.

         Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars
         and desolation, as the certain consequence of
         C[ae]sar's death.                     --Middleton.

         I have a sort of foreboding about him. --H. James.

Syn: To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage;
     portend; betoken.


\Fore*bode"\, v. i.
To fortell; to presage; to augur.

      If I forebode aright.                    --Hawthorne.


\Fore*bode"\, n.
Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]

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