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Definition of 'Foreboded'

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  • Forebode \Fore*bode"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foreboded; p. pr. & vb. n. Foreboding.] [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to announce. See Bode v. t.]
  • 1. To foretell. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. [1913 Webster]
  • His heart forebodes a mystery. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of C[ae]sar's death. --Middleton. [1913 Webster]
  • I have a sort of foreboding about him. --H. James.
  • Syn: To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken. [1913 Webster]

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