portend
VerbUS[pawr-tend]/pɔrˈtɛnd/2 syllables
Synonyms:
bodeauspicateprognosticateomenpresagebetokenforeshadowaugurforetellprefigureforecastpredict
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Por·tend′ transitive verb [past tense & past participle Portended; present participle & verbal noun Portending.]
Origin: 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. Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
Many signs portended a dark and stormy day.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
2. To stretch out before. rare “Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel.” Alexander Pope
Synonyms: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur; presage; foreshadow; threaten.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54