foreshadow
[ fawr-shad-oh, fohr- ]
/ fɔrˈʃæd oʊ, foʊr- /
verb (used with object)
to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
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prefigure, predict, portend, imply, foretell, augur, presage, omen, hint, suggest, signal, betoken, adumbrate, forebode, promise, shadow, bode, prophesy, telegraph
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Origin of foreshadow
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foreshadow
/ (fɔːˈʃædəʊ) /
verb
(tr) to show, indicate, or suggest in advance; presage
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foreshadow
1570s, from fore- + shadow (v.); the notion is of a shadow thrown before an advancing material object as an image of something suggestive of what is to come. Related: Foreshadowed; foreshadowing.
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