foresee

[ fawr-see ]

/ fɔrˈsi /

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verb (used with object), fore·saw, fore·seen, fore·see·ing.

to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.

to see beforehand.

verb (used without object), fore·saw, fore·seen, fore·see·ing.

to exercise foresight.

OTHER WORDS FOR foresee

1 divine, discern.

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Origin of foresee

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English foresēon.See fore-, see¹

synonym study for foresee

1. See predict.

OTHER WORDS FROM foresee

fore·see·a·ble, adjectivefore·se·er, nounun·fore·see·ing, adjectiveun·fore·seen, adjective

well-fore·seen, adjective

How to use foresee in a sentence

In any case, he does not foresee theaters reopening before the fall, and when they do reopen, he does not expect things to come back with a bang.
Actor Bobby Smith on making a living in a pandemic|Patrick Folliard|January 14, 2021|Washington Blade
United foresaw Rooney staying through the 2021 season, perhaps overlapping with Özil’s arrival.
Mesut Özil playing for D.C. United seems unlikely. But it’s not impossible.|Steven Goff|January 14, 2021|Washington Post
We might foresee a return to the societies of our prehuman forebears, when, like chimpanzees and most other vertebrates, every individual literally had to remember everybody else in their society.
Why a Universal Society Is Unattainable - Issue 95: Escape|Mark W. Moffett|January 14, 2021|Nautilus
The chairman and CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation brought singing gondoliers to the Las Vegas Strip and foresaw correctly that Asia would be an even bigger market.
Sheldon Adelson, GOP power broker and casino mogul, dies at 87|Katherine Dunn|January 12, 2021|Fortune

Digital space, in line with the rest of the world, has gone through a lot of rethinking and reinventing, demonstrated resilience and agility, trying to foresee and comfort consumers in every single shift in their behavior.
Jingle all the way: What will 2021 mean to the advertising world?|Alex Zakrevsky|December 25, 2020|Search Engine Watch
Fine, if he has a good basis for foreseeing mutual compromises from the old foes.
Hillary's Dangerous Mideast Leap|Leslie H. Gelb|September 15, 2010|DAILY BEAST
It wasn't a question of foreseeing anything, just one of noticing what was in front of him—even if it didn't match his models.
If I Did It|Paul Kedrosky|October 23, 2008|DAILY BEAST
"Send your wife up to the wedding," exclaimed the Doctor, foreseeing a happy solution.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
Foreseeing refusal, it flaunted warlike preparations to crush the union under the iron heel.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist|Alexander Berkman
Thy foreseeing wisdom takes care to send infatuation upon these detestable men who are so dangerous to us.
Superstition In All Ages (1732)|Jean Meslier
Religion, by its virtues, has but given a change to men; instead of foreseeing evils, it applies but insufficient remedies.
Superstition In All Ages (1732)|Jean Meslier
It had lain always at the mercy of her passions; she had given it to her passions to destroy, foreseeing the destruction.
The Creators|May Sinclair

British Dictionary definitions for foresee

foresee

/ (fɔːˈsiː) /

verb -sees, -seeing, -saw or -seen

(tr; may take a clause as object) to see or know beforehandhe did not foresee that

Derived forms of foresee

foreseeable, adjectiveforeseer, noun

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Origin of foresee

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British Dictionary definitions for foresee

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