forbode
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The oppressive pressure, Raffles noted, “seemed to forbode an earthquake.”
From Scientific American ● Mar. 1, 2013
The lyrics she has written in 1940 forbode Millay-things probably to come.
From Time Magazine Archive
When it appears to a person in the churchyard, particularly to the grave-digger, it is said to forbode the death of a child that shall be next laid in the earth.”
From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various
He wouldn't lie down, and when he did, it was with a grump of protest that seemed to forbode failure.
From Melchior's Dream and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
"The Peace Treaty," wrote Italy's most influential journal, "and its correlate forbode for the near future the Continental hegemony of France countersigned by the Anglo-American alliance."
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon
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