Found 3 items, similar to Portend.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: portend
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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.
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Many signs portended a dark and stormy day.
--Macaulay.
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2. To stretch out before. [R.]
“Doomed to feel the great
Idomeneus' portended steel.” --Pope.
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Syn: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur;
presage; foreshadow; threaten.
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