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Foretell

Foretell Meaning & Definition
Foretell Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Foretell?

[v] indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
[v] make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election"
[v] foreshadow or presage

Synonyms | Synonyms for Foretell: announce | annunciate | anticipate | augur | auspicate | betoken | bode | call | forebode | forecast | foreshadow | harbinger | herald | omen | portend | predict | prefigure | presage | prognosticate | promise

Related Terms | Find terms related to Foretell: adumbrate | announce | anticipate | apprehend | approach | augur | await | be destined | be fated | be imminent | be to be | be to come | bode | call | cast a horoscope | cast a nativity | come | come on | declare | disclose | divine | divulge | dope | dope out | dowse for water | draw near | draw on | expect | forebode | forecast | foreknow | foresee | foreshadow | foreshow | foretoken | forewarn | fortune-tell | guess | hariolate | hope | lie ahead | look for | look forward to | loom | make a prediction | make a prognosis | make a prophecy | near | plan | plot | portend | predict | prefigure | presage | proclaim | prognosticate | project | promise | prophesy | read palms | read tea leaves | read the future | reveal | soothsay | speculate | tell fortunes | tell the future | threaten | vaticinate | warn

See Also | bespeak | bet | calculate | foreshow | guess | hazard | indicate | outguess | point | prophesy | read | secondguess | signal | tell | threaten | vaticinate | venture | wager

Foretell In Webster's Dictionary

\Fore*tell"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foretold}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Foretelling}.] To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. --Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. --C. Middleton. Syn: To predict; prophesy; prognosticate; augur.
\Fore*tell"\, v. i. To utter predictions. --Acts iii. 24.

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