Forebode /(?)/
Fore·bode
Forebode
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Foreboded; p. pr. & vb. n. Foreboding
- To foretell.
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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.
Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death.
I have a sort of foreboding about him.
Forebode
v. i.
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To foretell; to presage; to augur.
If I forebode aright.
Forebode
n.
- Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]