[
UK
/pɔːtˈɛnd/
]
[ US /pɔɹˈtɛnd/ ]
[ US /pɔɹˈtɛnd/ ]
VERB
-
indicate, as with a sign or an omen
These signs bode bad news
How To Use portend In A Sentence
- Ravages of age: Glacier National Park turns 100, but melting glaciers portend big changes resources | Recommend Latest World & National News & Headlines
- Although HUD will not release conclusive results from the recent Counts until this summer, we are already seeing plenty of antidotal information and partial numbers portending bad news. Census Time: Who is Homeless?
- The devaluation was recognized as more than a technical adjustment: it was a clear sign of French disengagement, portending withdrawal a year later.
- Fame portends trouble for men just as fattening does for pigs.
- Decaying cities often portend the failure of a state.
- The election results thus portend a new period of social convulsions.
- What they portend is that—just as Wells had written at the start of "War of the Worlds"—an old, arid world with its dried-up canals is now intent on conquest. Why Steampunk's Time Has Come
- Even for those who did not accept these apocalyptic scenarios, emancipation portended a chaotic and terrifying new world.
- To them, the lab cowboy and his sperminator portended a dystopia of mass - produced boys.
- We're told that we've been getting fatter for thirty years, and that this thickening of our waistlines portends a coming healthcare catastrophe.