[ US /fɔɹˈtɛɫ/ ]
[ UK /fɔːtˈɛl/ ]
VERB
  1. foreshadow or presage
  2. make a prediction about; tell in advance
    Call the outcome of an election
  3. indicate, as with a sign or an omen
    These signs bode bad news
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How To Use foretell In A Sentence

  • “Ay,” answered Hayraddin, “it required neither astrologer, or physiognomist, nor chiromantist to foretell that I should follow the destiny of my family.” Quentin Durward
  • Jesus Christ, I say, can foresee and foretell the future.
  • Often when a great person dies, a symbolic event which foretells the death of that person, occurs.
  • In union with the PS3 code update, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) is entertained to foretell digit BD-LIVE enabled titles to be liberated on Apr 8 - Walk Hard: The bibliothec Cox Story and The 6th Day. Xml's Blinklist.com
  • a kind of chaplet, or crown, the possession of which by any woman was supposed to confer the power of necromancy or magic, rendering her able to heal diseases and to foretell events. The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself
  • They say that eclipses foretoken misfortune, because misfortunes are common, so that, as evil happens so often, they often foretell it; whereas if they said that they predict good fortune, they would often be wrong. Pens��es
  • Christ, of whom not only Cyrus, who was God's servant in foretelling it, was a type. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • One shilling for simple magic such as foretelling the fate of common black people. Allan and the Holy Flower
  • If she does not, the ancient prophecies foretell doom and destruction over all the earth.
  • He is more particular here in foretelling his sufferings than any time before. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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