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Foretell

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Verb

1. announce, annunciate, foretell, harbinger, herald

foreshadow or presage

2. anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise

make a prediction about; tell in advance

Example Sentences:
'Call the outcome of an election'

3. augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate

indicate by signs

Example Sentences:
'These signs bode bad news'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Foretell

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verb -tells, -telling or -told

(tr; may take a clause as object)

to tell or indicate (an event, a result, etc) beforehand; predict

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Foretell

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verb transitiveWord forms: foreˈtold or foreˈtelling

to tell, announce, or indicate beforehand; prophesy; predict

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Foretell

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tr.v. fore·told (-tōld), fore·tell·ing, fore·tells

To tell of or indicate beforehand; predict.

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