Crossword clues for portended
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
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To stretch out before. [R.] ``Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel.''
--Pope.Syn: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur; presage; foreshadow; threaten.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: portend)
Usage examples of "portended".
Surely the appearance of the sword after so many centuries portended tremendous change and challenge.
A malformed or stillborn Beltane child portended famine and plague next year.
But those occurrences, whatever they might have portended, were in the past.
If this was a portent, how serious a calamity must have been portended by a plague which, whether portent or no, was in itself a serious calamity!
Each wakanisha had shared the dream, and none doubted it was a true dream, but as to its interpretation, what it portended for the People, there was only discord.
The signs portended great danger, and dangerous times required risky measures.