Portend : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Portend	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
portend v indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Portend \Por*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Portended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Portending}.] [L. portendre, portentum, to foretell, to predict, to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to stretch. See {Position}, {Tend}.] 1. To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. --Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. --Macaulay. 2. To stretch out before. [R.] [bd]Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel.[b8] --Pope. Syn: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur; presage; foreshadow; threaten.