Crossword clues for portend
portend
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) to serve as a warning or omen 2 (context transitive English) to signify; to denote
WordNet
Usage examples of "portend".
The knotted blood within my hose, That from my wounded body flows, With mortal crisis doth portend My days to appropinque an end.
Better live under a regnant now than suffer a regent for many years and all the instability that portends.
Even if the cannons portended victory, Dolley knew there would be no big company dinner.
Space Station Freedom in the late 1990s portends a fresh burgeoning of an idea that in science fiction has become a staple used for both utopian and dystopian visions.
Leroy began to have an uneasy premonition that the merrymaking portended sinister things.
That is why I believe we have outdistanced him, and that the stones we see falling from above portend another slide and nothing more.
I offered him a charter and my full backing, for it looked to be portending a virtual gold mine of income, but that honest, selfless man insistedfinally, profanely, and blasphemously insisted over my objectionsthat I and the archdiocese stand to receive the bulk of any profits if I backed the venture.
The Magus, who was fully awake as Crecca deposited him on the autopsy table, paid no attention to the battle, or what it portended for the future of this incarnation of Gert Wolfram's World Famous Carny Show.
Carolinus would be able to tell if the feeling portended anything Aargh might need to bestir himself personally about.
Yet, for our part, these things which happen contrary to nature, and are said to be contrary to nature (as the apostle, speaking after the manner of men, says, that to graft the wild olive into the good olive, and to partake of its fatness, is contrary to nature), and are called monsters, phenomena, portents, prodigies, ought to demonstrate, portend, predict that God will bring to pass what He has foretold regarding the bodies of men, no difficulty preventing Him, no law of nature prescribing to Him His limit.
A third group believes the length of a jury's deliberation portends guilt or innocence about as reliably as the presence or absence of a ground hog's shadow predicts how long Old Man Winter will stick around in any given year.
The men exchanged hellos and then Devine briefly reviewed the situation, asking each man what he had heard on the grapevine, what the thought Joe Mondragon's act might portend, and what he, Ladd Devine, ought to do about it.
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.