foretell

foretell
    v 1: foreshadow or presage [syn: {announce}, {annunciate},
         {harbinger}, {foretell}, {herald}]
    2: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome
       of an election" [syn: {predict}, {foretell}, {prognosticate},
       {call}, {forebode}, {anticipate}, {promise}]
    3: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: {bode},
       {portend}, {auspicate}, {prognosticate}, {omen}, {presage},
       {betoken}, {foreshadow}, {augur}, {foretell}, {prefigure},
       {forecast}, {predict}]
    

Foretell \Fore*tell"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Foretold}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Foretelling}.]
   To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to
   foreshow.
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         Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. --Pope.
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         Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster
         of his character.                        --C.
                                                  Middleton.

   Syn: To predict; prophesy; prognosticate; augur.
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Foretell \Fore*tell"\, v. i.
   To utter predictions. --Acts iii. 24.
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70 Moby Thesaurus words for "foretell":
      adumbrate, announce, anticipate, apprehend, approach, augur, await,
      be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, bode,
      call, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, come, come on, declare,
      disclose, divine, divulge, dope, dope out, dowse for water,
      draw near, draw on, expect, forebode, forecast, foreknow, foresee,
      foreshadow, foreshow, foretoken, forewarn, fortune-tell, guess,
      hariolate, hope, lie ahead, look for, look forward to, loom,
      make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, near, plan,
      plot, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, proclaim,
      prognosticate, project, promise, prophesy, read palms,
      read tea leaves, read the future, reveal, soothsay, speculate,
      tell fortunes, tell the future, threaten, vaticinate, warn