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forebode

/fɔːˈbəʊd/
noun

  1. Prognostication; presage

verb

  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.

Synonymsforetell, portend, predict

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