forerun
Americanverb (used with object)
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to run in front of; come before; precede.
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to be the precursor or harbinger of; prefigure.
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to anticipate or foretell.
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to forestall.
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to outrun or outstrip.
verb
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to serve as a herald for
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to go before; precede
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to prevent or forestall
Etymology
Origin of forerun
1505–15; fore- + run; probably not continuous with Middle English forerennen (intransitive) to run ahead, Old English fōryrnan
Example Sentences
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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.
From Time Magazine Archive
The comet was the talk, especially in the evening, of the world, as it was taken to forerun disasters.
From The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form by Henry Llewellyn Williams
These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.
From King Richard II by William Shakespeare
Gone, gone, gone! they have fled before the piercing and terrible winds that forerun the storms and the hurricanes.
From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière
The cape jasmine wore hundreds of her own white favors, whose fragrance forerun the sight.
From Dr. Sevier by George Washington Cable
An hour of this passed, when the vibrations of feet in contact with the ground foreran the one who approached.
From White Fang by Jack London
In him, though the soul's forces were not feeble, the senses foreran them,--compelled them, sometimes conquered them.
From Mercy Philbrick's Choice by Helen Hunt Jackson
When the wind backed around into the northeast, as it had on this occasion, it foreran a gale of more than usual power and of more than twenty-four hours' duration.
From Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper by James A. Cooper
It teaches that God, being the eternal omnipresent power and mystery which foreran, underlies, pervades and includes all things, cannot justly be figured as a man, locally here or there, and not elsewhere.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
In that he foreran our Lord, his deed is beyond our reach: but in three other concernments, in no wise.
From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt
Here’s a timeline of Steve Bannon’s White House months and the forerunning campaign role:
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2017
A finger forerunning his eyes along the page.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
The forerunning qualm of seasickness was as nothing to this.
From The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey
It was the fate that he expected; he, like so many, had a forerunning assurance of his end.
From John Redmond's Last Years by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
Years out of mind the adherents of the leading political parties had mingled sociably before a non-partisan bulletin board in the courthouse, much as hostile camps fraternize in the truce forerunning peace.
From The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther
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