FOREBODE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they forebode ... he / she / it forebodes

Past simple: foreboded

Past participle: foreboded

-ing form: foreboding

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a prediction about; tell in advance

Example:

Call the outcome of an election

Synonyms:

anticipate; call; forebode; foretell; predict; prognosticate; promise

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "forebode" is one way to...):

guess; hazard; pretend; venture (put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "forebode"):

read (interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior)

outguess; second-guess (attempt to anticipate or predict)

augur (predict from an omen)

bet; wager (maintain with or as if with a bet)

calculate; forecast (predict in advance)

prophesy; vaticinate (predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

foreboding (an unfavorable omen)

foreboding (a feeling of evil to come)

Credits

Context examples:

Steerforth and the rest to work: which is only second, in my foreboding apprehensions, to the time when the man with the wooden leg shall unlock the rusty gate to give admission to the awful Mr. Creakle.