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Forebode

Forebode Meaning & Definition
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

\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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