Sekirov Dictionary

forebode

UK /fɔːˈbəʊd/US /fɔɹˈbɔʊd/

verb 2
noun 1
forms 3

verb2

•
To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
- There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. — 1850
•
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.
- Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death. — 1741

noun1

(no longer used) prognostication; presage

forms

foreboded · foreboding · forebodes

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