Portend \Por*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Portended; p. pr. &
vb. n. Portending.] [L. portendre, portentum, to foretell,
to predict, to impend, from an old preposition used in comp.
+ tendere to stretch. See Position, Tend.]
1. To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to
foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of
unpropitious signs. --Bacon.
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Many signs portended a dark and stormy day.
--Macaulay.
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2. To stretch out before. [R.] "Doomed to feel the great
Idomeneus' portended steel." --Pope.
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Syn: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur;
presage; foreshadow; threaten.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
portend
v : indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode,
auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken,
foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast,
predict]
WordNet (r) 2.0
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "portend":
adumbrate, apprehend, augur, betoken, bode, call, croak, forebode,
forecast, foreshadow, foreshow, foretoken, forewarn,
give advance notice, have a premonition, have a presentiment,
look black, lower, menace, omen, preapprehend, precaution, predict,
premonish, prenotify, presage, prewarn, prognosticate, promise,
prophesy, tell in advance, threaten, vaticinate, warn
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate
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