forebode
verb (used with object)
to foretell or predict; be an omen of; indicate beforehand; portend.
have foreboded
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present perfectof forebode.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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I needn’t have foreboded so; I might have knowed that though her hatred of matrimony wuz great, her egotism and self esteem wuz bigger yet.
From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Marietta Holley
He seemed to have foreboded my feelings this evening.
From The Home by Mary (Mary Botham) Howitt
Not the end as you may have anticipated it, or as I might have foreboded it.
From Little Novels by Wilkie Collins
When Australia was first colonised, any sensible man might have foreboded sorrel, cockspur, Scotch thistle, &c., as unwelcome, but unavoidable, adjuncts of settlement.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
Too innocent to imagine the real motive that prompted the senator's intrusion on her slumbers, where others of her sex would have foreboded dishonour, she feared death.
From Antonina by Wilkie Collins
