Foretell \Fore*tell"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foretold; p. pr. &
vb. n. Foretelling.]
To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to
foreshow.
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Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. --Pope.
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Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster
of his character. --C.
Middleton.
Syn: To predict; prophesy; prognosticate; augur.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Foretell \Fore*tell"\, v. i.
To utter predictions. --Acts iii. 24.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
foretell
v 1: foreshadow or presage [syn: announce, annunciate, harbinger,
herald]
2: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome
of an election" [syn: predict, prognosticate, call,
forebode, anticipate, promise]
3: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode,
portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage,
betoken, foreshadow, augur, prefigure, forecast,
predict]
[also: foretold]
WordNet (r) 2.0
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "foretell":
adumbrate, announce, anticipate, apprehend, approach, augur, await,
be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, bode,
call, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, come, come on, declare,
disclose, divine, divulge, dope, dope out, dowse for water,
draw near, draw on, expect, forebode, forecast, foreknow, foresee,
foreshadow, foreshow, foretoken, forewarn, fortune-tell, guess,
hariolate, hope, lie ahead, look for, look forward to, loom,
make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, near, plan,
plot, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, proclaim,
prognosticate, project, promise, prophesy, read palms,
read tea leaves, read the future, reveal, soothsay, speculate,
tell fortunes, tell the future, threaten, vaticinate, warn
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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