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Answer for the clue "Presage ", 4 letters:
bode

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v. indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: portend , auspicate , prognosticate , omen , presage , betoken , foreshadow , augur , foretell , prefigure , forecast , predict ]

Usage examples of bode.

That he was now the President of the College of Tribunes of the Plebs did not bode well for tribunician antics of demagogue kind.

The porno theaters and by-the-hour motels yield to botdnicas and bode gas outlets for Discos Latinos, an infinite array of food stands--taco joints, Peruvian seafood parlors, fast-food franchises-and first-rate Latino restaurants, beauty shops with windows guarded by Styrofoam skulls wearing blond Dynel wigs, Cuban bakeries, storefront medical and legal clinics, bars and social clubs.

City in these deceptively peaceful times did not bode well for the continued safety of Rhomatum streets or its treaty with Mauritum.

Black draperies, likewise, in the gloomy room, shut out from our view the moon, the lurid stars, and the peopleless streets--but the boding and the memory of Evil, they would not be so excluded.

It boded well for the sesquicentennial celebration of Pickax City, 400 miles north of everywhere.

The ancient trepanning of skulls which so puzzled archeologists and anthropologists was directed at getting into the brain to scratch the announcing pruritus, the Boding Itch.

High up on the slope he found the four burros, sleek and fat and lazy, and, when he drove them, the first time for months, he had strange, dark, boding appreciation of the brevity of life.

But, gentlemen, if this be indeed a prophecy, it should, methinks, bode well for our enterprise.

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The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.

While this sentiment was useful to the de Tenebres in the present circumstance, it might not bode well for the future -- after all, they had their own compradores.

Being that the brownies were easily agitated, it would not bode well for his new bride to wake fully unenchanted to see thousands of savage creatures cavorting around her naked body.

The justice of the peace, before whom Adams would appear, and the lawyer for Lambert were father and son--Colonel Josiah Quincy and young Samuel Quincy--a circumstance that obviously did not bode well for Adams and his client.

The ensign and his soldiers stood to their arms: while the faint echo of the musket-sound conveyed to the watchful bushranger the fatal intimation that some discovery had taken place on shore which could bode only ill to him, from the junction of the parties now united for his destruction, and which required the exercise of all his cunning and unequalled daring to guard against and to repel.

All that morning the recollection of the night before hung over Tom Chist like a great cloud of boding trouble.