forebode
verb (used with object)
to foretell or predict; be an omen of; indicate beforehand; portend.
foreboded
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past participleof forebode.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 forebode.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
forebodeverb (used with object)to foretell or predict; be an omen of; indicate beforehand; portend.
Example Sentences
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The sky was utterly dark, and the stillness of the heavy air foreboded storm.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
But it is foreboded that that will only be when we have both lost all that we now have.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
His friends warned him that these continual insults and depredations foreboded mischief, and that he ought not to submit to them.
From The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child
Those streaks on the horizon foreboded evil weather, as Luke had feared.
From The Corner House Girls on Palm Island by Thelma Gooch
He knew that it foreboded national convulsions and throes.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
