Thesaurus: portend
To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs.
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Definitions
- v. t. To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs.
- v. t. To stretch out before.
- v. indicate, as with a sign or an omen
- 1. To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. 2. To stretch out before. [R.] "Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel." Pope. Syn. -- To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur; presage; foreshadow; threaten.