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PORTEND
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they portend ... he / she / it portends
Past simple: portended
Past participle: portended
-ing form: portending
Sense 1
Meaning:
Indicate, as with a sign or an omen
Example:
These signs bode bad news
Synonyms:
augur; auspicate; betoken; bode; forecast; foreshadow; foretell; omen; portend; predict; prefigure; presage; prognosticate
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "portend" is one way to...):
bespeak; betoken; indicate; point; signal (be a signal for or a symptom of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "portend"):
threaten (to be a menacing indication of something)
foreshow (foretell by divine inspiration)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
portent (a sign of something about to happen)
