Foresee \Fore*see"\, v. t. [AS. forese['o]n; fore + se['o]n to
see. See See, v. t.]
1. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.
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A prudent man foreseeth the evil. --Prov. xxii.
3.
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2. To provide. [Obs.]
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Great shoals of people, which go on to populate,
without foreseeing means of life. --Bacon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Foresee \Fore*see"\, v. i.
To have or exercise foresight. [Obs.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
foresee
v 1: realize beforehand [syn: anticipate, previse, foreknow]
2: picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him
as President" [syn: envision]
3: act in advance of; deal with ahead of time [syn: anticipate,
forestall, counter]
[also: foreseen, foresaw]
WordNet (r) 2.0
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "foresee":
anticipate, apprehend, approach, augur, await, be destined,
be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, cast a horoscope,
cast a nativity, come, come on, contemplate, descry, discern,
divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, draw near, draw on, dread,
envisage, envision, espy, expect, face, forebode, forecast,
foreglimpse, foreknow, forerun, forestall, foretaste, foretell,
fortune-tell, get ahead of, go before, go off half-cocked, guess,
hariolate, have in mind, hope, jump the gun, lie ahead, look ahead,
look beyond, look for, look forward to, loom, make a prediction,
make a prognosis, make a prophecy, near, perceive, picture, plan,
plot, predict, prefigure, presage, presume, prevision,
prognosticate, project, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves,
read the future, see, see ahead, see beforehand, soothsay,
speculate, take for granted, tell fortunes, tell the future, think,
threaten, vaticinate, visualize, win the start
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
anticipate, counter, envision, foreknow, foresaw, foreseen, forestall, previse
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