[ US /fɔɹˈboʊd/ ]
VERB
  1. make a prediction about; tell in advance
    Call the outcome of an election
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How To Use forebode In A Sentence

  • It would go hard with them, Billy foreboded gloomily. CHAPTER X
  • Yet it was there, shouting its message of warning through every tissue cell, every nerve quickness and brain sensitivity of him — a totality of sensation that foreboded the ultimate catastrophe of life about which he knew nothing at all, but which, nevertheless, he felt to be the conclusive supreme disaster. CHAPTER VI
  • The current crop of appointments forebode a continuation ofNeo-con imperialism with Neo-Lib trimmings. Interview with Steve Hildebrand; Steve, Did you tell Progressives to Shut the F Up?
  • This just shows certain resentment in the party for Obama, and could forebode him having trouble keeping discipline in the ranks. Feingold: McCain "Calls 'Em As He Sees 'Em"
  • Is called Hampshire and Sussex the storm-cock, because its song is supposed to forebode windy wet weather: it is the largest singing bird we have. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
  • Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. Joe Pantoliano: Stigma Ain't What It Used To Be
  • Westerland, who had seen that look on other faces and knew what it foreboded, suffered severe feelings of misgiving. The Elvis Latte
  • The replacement of Mottaki by Salehi could forebode changes in Iran's foreign policy, said the Ayandeh Web site, which is close to former intelligence officials. Iran replaces foreign minister
  • --- More than anything in the world the procurator hated the smell of rose oil, and now everything foreboded a bad day, because this smell had been pursuing the procurator since dawn. Archive 2008-04-01
  • He turns without thinking to the one following him to ask him to zip him back up in again, realizing with horror after a moment exactly what this must forebode.
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