01 v. t. To foretell.
imp. & p. p.
Foreboded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Foreboding
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1.
To foretell.
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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.“His heart forebodes a mystery.” — Tennyson.“Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death.” — Middleton.“I have a sort of foreboding about him.” — H. James.