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portend

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  Many  signs  portended  a  dark  and  stormy  day 
  --Macaulay. 
 
  2.  To  stretch  out  before  [R.]  ``Doomed  to  feel  the  great 
  Idomeneus'  portended  steel.''  --Pope. 
 
  Syn:  To  foreshow;  foretoken;  betoken;  forebode;  augur; 
  presage;  foreshadow;  threaten. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  portend 
  v  :  indicate  by  signs;  "These  signs  bode  bad  news"  [syn:  {bode}, 
  {auspicate},  {prognosticate},  {omen},  {presage},  {betoken}, 
  {foreshadow},  {augur},  {foretell},  {prefigure},  {forecast}, 
  {predict}]




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