betoken
verb (used with object)
to give evidence of; indicate.
betokened
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past participleof betoken.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof betoken.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
betokenverb (used with object)to give evidence of; indicate.
Example Sentences
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The statistics betokened a return to artistic health for the 41 theaters of Broadway, forced to shut down for 15 months starting in March 2020 because of the pandemic.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2022
Castro, ageing and ill, retained remnants of his charisma over these last few years but his gaunt frame and wide, non-seeing eyes betokened a world that was past.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 26, 2016
“But even that’s a cliché, you know. And then you’ve got ‘the sun peeped through the foliage’ and ‘the ominous black clouds that betokened thunder’—betokened, right?
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 10, 2016
I think Obama really betokened a new day in America.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2016
His birth in the country of the Kenites and adepts betokened his consecration and separation, while the residence at Nazareth typified his Essenean relations.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
