Found 3 items, similar to portend.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: portend meramalkan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: portend portend v : indicate by signs; “These signs bode bad news” [syn: bode, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Portend 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]