forebode
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forebode
- /fɔɹˈbɔʊd/ US
- /fɔːˈbəʊd/ UK
Rhymes with -əʊd
Where it comes from
From Middle English foreboden, from Old English forebodian, equivalent to fore- + bode.
verb forebodes · foreboding · foreboded · forbode
- To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device). There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart.
- 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. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death.
noun forbode
- prognostication; presage
Translations
Every language
verb to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device)
| Español | presagiar |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 預示 /预示 yùshì |
| Deutsch | voraussehen, ahnen |
| Italiano | presagire, vaticinare |
| Русский | предвеща́ть predveščátʹ |
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