forebode : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: forebode	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for forebode
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
forebode v make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" Synonym(s): predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 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[91]sar's death. --Middleton. I have a sort of foreboding about him. --H. James. Syn: To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Forebode \Forebode"\, v. i. To fortell; to presage; to augur. If I forebode* aright. --Hawthorne.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Forebode \Fore*bode"\, n. Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]