foretell


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foretell
v. predict, prophesy, tell in advance

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foretell

Verb
1. foreshadow or presage
(synonym) announce, annunciate, harbinger, herald
(hypernym) tell
2. make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election"
(synonym) predict, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise
(hypernym) guess, venture, pretend, hazard
(hyponym) read
(derivation) prediction, foretelling, forecasting, prognostication
3. indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
(synonym) bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, prefigure, forecast, predict
(hypernym) bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal
(hyponym) threaten


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foretell
Czas. przepowiadać

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foretell
v. a.
آگم کہنا, پہلے سے جتانا, غيب کي کہنا, پيش گوئي کرنا
For many men that stumble at threshold
Are well foretold that stumble at threshold
Are well foretold that danger lurks within.
(Shakespeare)
لگے گھستے ہي در پہ ٹھوکر اگر تو سمجھو کہ اندر ہے بے شک خطر F.C.


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foretell
Synonyms and related words:
adumbrate, announce, anticipate, apprehend, approach, augur, await, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, bode, call, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, come, come on, declare, disclose, divine, divulge, dope, dope out, dowse for water, draw near, draw on, expect, forebode, forecast, foreknow, foresee, foreshadow, foreshow, foretoken, forewarn, fortune-tell, guess, hariolate, hope, lie ahead, look for, look forward to, loom, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, near, plan, plot, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, proclaim, prognosticate, project, promise, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, reveal, soothsay, speculate, tell fortunes, tell the future, threaten, vaticinate, warn
  

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