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[syn: predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Forebode \Fore*bode"\, v. i.
To foretell; to presage; to augur.
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If I forebode aright. --Hawthorne.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Forebode \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.
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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.
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His heart forebodes a mystery. --Tennyson.
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Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars
and desolation, as the certain consequence of
C[ae]sar's death. --Middleton.
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I have a sort of foreboding about him. --H. James.
Syn: To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage;
portend; betoken.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Forebode \Fore*bode"\, n.
Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
forebode
v 1: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome
of an election" [syn: predict, foretell,
prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate,
promise]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "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