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Meanings of forebode in English

Portuguese
prognosticar
Catalan
preveure
Spanish
prever

To state, or make something known in advance, especially using inference or special knowledge.

      prognosticar
      Usage of forebode in English
      1
      I might be able to forebode for France, and for its ruler.
      The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
      2
      Yes, it surely must be the banshee, and what does it forebode?
      The Heir of Kilfinnan: A Tale of the Shore and Ocean
      3
      You, too, forebode that in this visit I may lose her forever?
      A Strange Story — Volume 02
      4
      Do you now foresee, do you forebode what happened?-Yourbrother came in!-
      Anna St. Ives
      5
      What these things forebode, if not disaster and ruin, 'tis hard to say.
      Zenobia; or, the Fall of Palmyra
      6
      To me, the signs of the times appear to be ominous-toforebode evil!
      A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, An Essay on Slavery
      7
      The menaces of my persecutor seemed to forebode the inevitable interruption of this system.
      Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are
      8
      The matter may amount to nothing, and then again it may forebode something serious.
      The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of Hist...
      9
      This condition forebode delirium and death, unless stayed by the only means at hand.
      The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate
      10
      Now, however, the wind has subsided, and the weather-seers know not what to forebode.
      Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.
      11
      As for the sufferings which you forebode for me, they are really very tolerable.
      Letters of a Soldier, 1914-1915
      12
      Dorothy came reluctantly, haunted with a forebode of impending griefs.
      The President: A Novel
      13
      There are, however, several that by their cry, forebode evil.
      The Manóbos of Mindanáo / Memoirs of the National Academy of Sci...
      14
      The Sanskrit root, whence the English "bode" and "forebode," means "to know."
      Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology
      15
      And in my apprehension, you forebode your own doom.
      Eugene Aram — Volume 03
      16
      It will be far otherwise than as you forebode.
      The House of the Seven Gables
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