[syn: bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Foretell \Fore*tell"\, v. i.
   To utter predictions. --Acts iii. 24.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Foretell \Fore*tell"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foretold; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Foretelling.]
   To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to
   foreshow.
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         Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. --Pope.
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         Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster
         of his character.                        --C.
                                                  Middleton.
   Syn: To predict; prophesy; prognosticate; augur.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
foretell
    v 1: foreshadow or presage [syn: announce, annunciate,
         harbinger, foretell, herald]
    2: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome
       of an election" [syn: predict, foretell, prognosticate,
       call, forebode, anticipate, promise]
    3: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode,
       portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage,
       betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure,
       forecast, predict]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "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