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portend (v.)
1.indicate by signs"These signs bode bad news"
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PortendPor*tend" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Portended; p. pr. & vb. n. Portending.] [L. portendre, portentum, to foretell, to predict, to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to stretch. See Position, Tend.]
1. To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon.
Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay.
2. To stretch out before. [R.] “Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel.” Pope.
Syn. -- To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur; presage; foreshadow; threaten.
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portend (v.)
↘ anticipation, prediction, prevision ↗ augur, augury, harbinger, herald, omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication
portend (v.)
prédire (fr)[Classe]
bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal[Hyper.]
augur, augury, harbinger, herald, omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication - adumbration, foreshadowing, prefiguration - prognosis, projection - auspice - augur, auspex - adumbrative, foreshadowing, prefigurative - predictive, prognostic, prognosticative[Dérivé]
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