Portend

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  • transitive verb. To serve as an omen or a warning of; presage.
  • transitive verb. To indicate by prediction; forecast.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To stretch forth; protend.
  • To betoken; presage; signify in advance; foreshow.
  • Synonyms To forebode, augur, presage, threaten, foreshadow. See omen.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs.
  • transitive verb. To stretch out before.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to serve as a warning or omen
  • verb. to signify; to denote
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. indicate by signs
    • Word Usage
    "What these stories portend is a pattern of naturalistic thought that permeates the greater part of all of Jack London's writing after 1902."
    cross-reference
    harbinger  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bespeak  betoken  indicate  point  signal  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    foreshow  threaten  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    End  Friend  Mende  Wend  abend  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adumbrate  apprehend  augur  augur  betoken  
    verb-form
    portended  portending  portends  
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