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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FORESHAD'OW, v.t. To shadow or typify beforehand.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: 1577 to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand ; prefigure • foreshadower noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. be a warning or indication of (a future event).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Foreshadow Fore*shad"ow, v. t. To shadow or typi?y beforehand; to prefigure. --Dryden.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(foreshadows, foreshadowing, foreshadowed) If something foreshadows an event or situation, it suggests that it will happen. The disappointing sales figures foreshadow more redundancies... VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Prefigure, presage, forebode, prognosticate, presignify, indicate or suggest beforehand, foretell dimly.

Moby Thesaurus

adumbrate, adumbration, augur, augury, auspicate, auspice, betoken, betokening, betokenment, bode, body forth, demonstrate, embody, exemplify, figure, forebode, foreshadowing, foreshow, foreshowing, foretoken, foretokening, have a hunch, have an intimation, hint, illustrate, image, impersonate, incarnate, indicant, indicate, indication, mirror, omen, personate, personify, portend, portent, predict, prefiguration, prefigure, preindication, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, presage, presignifying, pretypify, prognostic, prognostication, project, promise, prophesy, realize, reflect, shadow, shadow forth, sign, signal, signify, soothsay, token, tokening, type