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forebode

/fɔːˈbəʊd/ · noun

Meaning

  1. Prognostication; presage
  2. To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
  3. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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