FOREBODE (fawr BOHD) v. to be an omen of; to predict; to foretell
- The baby's purple face, quivering chin, and clenched fists forbode a temper tantrum.
Sometimes to forebode means to predict or prophesy.
- Bea forebodes tragey every time she gazes into her crystal ball, unless the person paying for her fotune-telling wants only the good news.
A foreboding is the feeling that something awful is about to happen.
- When Rafi saw the killer shark leap toward him with a gun under one fin and a knife under the other, he had a foreboding that something not particularly pleasant was about to happen to him.
To bode and forebode are synonyms.