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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. His heart forebodes a mystery. --Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of C[ae]sar's death. --Middleton. I have a sort of foreboding about him --H. James. Syn: To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Foreboding \Fore*bod"ing\, n. Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: foreboding adj : of ominous significance [syn: {fateful}, {foreboding(a)}, {portentous}] n 1: a feeling of evil to come: "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case" [syn: {premonition}, {presentiment}, {boding}] 2: an unfavorable omen
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