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[ US /fɔɹˈboʊd/ ]
VERB
  1. make a prediction about; tell in advance
    Call the outcome of an election

How To Use forebode In A Sentence

  • The prevalence of infi - delity, immorality and vice as surely indicates ap - proaching calamities, as clouds indicate a shower, winds forebode a storm, or the conjunction, or op - position of the sun and moon, in certain places in the heavens, presignifying an eclipse. Sermons delivered on various occasions : first published singly, now republished and collected into a volume, with two new one, never before printed
  • Their return in a second blister pack of two miniatures forebodes devastation among enemy ranks!
  • The sobering presentation foreboded the future of Taiwan's relationship with the United States.
  • Much of the time, it's just a misspelling-for example, "forbode" instead of "forebode, CJR
  • They were all bush dogs or wild-dogs, and so small was their courage that their thirst and physical pain from cords drawn too tight across veins and arteries, and their dim apprehension of the fate such treatment foreboded, led them to whimper and wail and howl their despair and suffering. CHAPTER XVI
  • The speeches of Oliver Cromwell have a formidable reputation for prolixity, confusion, and excessive tediousness; yet we have not, for our own part, found these volumes to be of the dry and scarce readable description which their title foreboded; and we would caution others not to be deterred by any fears of this nature from their perusal. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
  • What it meant as to particulars I no more foreboded then than you forebode now, but it put me rather out of sorts. Doctor Marigold
  • A man at first, perhaps, feels a kind of grudging and uneasiness all over his body, a deadness upon his stomach, and a drowsiness upon his senses, and he cannot well tell what he ails; but after a few days these uncertain beginnings come to rage in a burning fever, or to strike him with an apoplex; and then it appears what those symptoms foreboded and tended to all along; and the great question now is, not when or how soon the man shall recover and be well, but whether or no he shall live. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
  • These developments forebode disaster.
  • Who is Pan and what exactly does his name forebode? Playback:stl Syndication
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