Meaning of FOREBODE
| Pronunciation: | | fowr'bowd
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| | Definition: | | [v] make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" |
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| | Synonyms: | | anticipate, call, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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| | See Also: | | augur, bet, calculate, forecast, guess, hazard, outguess, prophesy, read, secondguess, vaticinate, venture, wager | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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