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
Hast thou not seyd, in blaspheme of this goddes, Through pryde, or through thy grete rakelnesse, Swich thing as in the lawe of love forbode is?
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Florence M. Grimm
Things that forbode evil fortune burden my imagination.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black
"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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