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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FOREBO'DE, v.t.
1. To foretell; to prognosticate.
2. To foreknow; to be prescient of; to feel a secret sense of something future; as, my heart forebodes a sad reverse.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" [syn: predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise]

Merriam Webster's

also forbode verb Date: 1603 transitive verb 1. to have an inward conviction of (as coming ill or misfortune) 2. foretell, portend intransitive verb augur, predict • foreboder noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 betoken; be an advance warning of (an evil or unwelcome event). 2 have a presentiment of (usu. evil).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Forebode Fore*bode", v. i. To fortell; to presage; to augur. If I forebode aright. --Hawthorne.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Forebode Fore*bode", n. Prognostication; presage. [Obs.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Forebode Fore*bode", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foreboded; p. pr. & vb. n. Foreboding.] [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to announce. See Bode v. t.] 1. To foretell. 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. His heart forebodes a mystery. --Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of C[ae]sar's death. --Middleton. I have a sort of foreboding about him. --H. James. Syn: To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Foretell, predict, presage, portend, augur, betoken, foreshadow, foreshow, prognosticate, prefigure, be ominous of. 2. Foreknow, be prescient of, have foreknowledge of, have prescience of, have premonition of, have presentiment of, divine.

Moby Thesaurus

apprehend, be imminent, betoken, bludgeon, bode, bulldoze, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, comminate, croak, denounce, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foreshow, foretell, foretoken, forewarn, fortune-tell, give advance notice, guess, hariolate, have a premonition, have a presentiment, intimidate, look black, look threatening, lower, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, menace, omen, portend, preapprehend, precaution, predict, prefigure, premonish, prenotify, presage, prewarn, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, soothsay, speculate, tell fortunes, tell in advance, tell the future, threaten, utter threats against, vaticinate, warn