foretell
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(verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" |
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Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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Related Words: augur, bet, calculate, forecast, guess, hazard, outguess, prophesy, read, secondguess, venture, wager |
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(verb) foreshadow or presage |
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Synonyms: announce, annunciate, harbinger, herald |
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Related Words: tell |
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(verb) indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" |
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Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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Related Words: bespeak, betoken, foreshow, indicate, point, prophesy, signal, threaten |
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