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
But the dispositions which mingled with my sorrow foreboded its transient duration.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
Friday, 27th.—Such a morning as the evening of yesterday foreboded; rather chilly and misty, and as near an approach to winter as Upper Egypt may be expected to afford.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington
George, who already foreboded the miseries which were awaiting us, would have started that moment, leaving both horses and carts; but I could not entertain such an idea as that.
From The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War by Alexandre Chatrian
