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foreboding

verb

Meaning

  1. To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
  2. 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.
  3. A sense of evil to come.
  4. An evil omen.
  5. Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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