forebode
verb (used with object)
to foretell or predict; be an omen of; indicate beforehand; portend.
forebodes
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present tense formof forebode (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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It’s 1833 in Friel’s fictional small town, Ballybeg, where a sweet, putrid smell rising from the potato fields forebodes famine and an ingress of redcoats threatens to blight the local heritage.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
A Game 7 loss at home for the fourth season in a row — 2-1 to the Nashville Predators in the first round Wednesday — forebodes consequences potentially more severe than previous years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2016
‘You have chosen the Evening; but my love is given to the Morning. And my heart forebodes that soon it will pass away for ever.’
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Every one forebodes disasters; but none think of reforming their lives in order to escape the threatened evil.
From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Ludwig Tieck
"I will not be bound," said Grettir, "when I go into the water, so much my mind forebodes me."
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. Chambers
