The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forebode \Fore*bode"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foreboded; p. pr. & vb. n. Foreboding.] [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to announce. See Bode v. t.]
To foretell.
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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.
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Usage examples of "foreboded".
But if any will come with me, I say to them: Is sorrow foreboded to you?
For Brandir foreboded he knew not what, and sought to restrain her, rather for her sake than his own or rivalry with Turambar.
But it is foreboded that that will only be when we have both lost all that we now have.
The sky was utterly dark, and the stillness of the heavy air foreboded storm.