forebode

🇺🇸 /fɔrˈbod/ 🇬🇧 /fɔ:'bəʊd/
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verb
R

To show signs that something bad might happen.

The dark clouds forebode a heavy rain.

R

To feel that something bad might happen.

She forebode something bad when she went into the old house.

translation

v. To show signs that something bad might happen.; To feel that something bad might happen.

Word Forms

3rd Present forebodes
Progressive foreboding
Perfect foreboded
Past foreboded