About The Word Portend
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Portend
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What's The Definition Of Portend?
[v] indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Portend: augur | auspicate | betoken | bode | forecast | foreshadow | foretell | omen | predict | prefigure | presage | prognosticate Related Terms | Find terms related to Portend: adumbrate | apprehend | augur | betoken | bode | call | croak | forebode | forecast | foreshadow | foreshow | foretoken | forewarn | give advance notice | have a premonition | have a presentiment | look black | lower | menace | omen | preapprehend | precaution | predict | premonish | prenotify | presage | prewarn | prognosticate | promise | prophesy | tell in advance | threaten | vaticinate | warn See Also | bespeak | foreshow | indicate | point | signal | threaten Portend In Webster's Dictionary \Por*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Portended}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Portending}.] [L. portendre, portentum, to foretell,
to predict, to impend, from an old preposition used in comp.
+ tendere to stretch. See {Position}, {Tend}.]
1. To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to
foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of
unpropitious signs. --Bacon.
Many signs portended a dark and stormy day.
--Macaulay.
2. To stretch out before. [R.] ``Doomed to feel the great
Idomeneus' portended steel.'' --Pope.
Syn: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur;
presage; foreshadow; threaten.
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