'Portend' definitions:
Definition of 'portend'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Portend'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To stretch out before. [R.] "Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel." --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur; presage; foreshadow; threaten. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'portend'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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