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foretell 音标拼音: [fɔrt'ɛl] vt. 预言,预告,预示 预言,预告,预示 foretell v 1: foreshadow or presage [ synonym: { announce}, { annunciate}, { harbinger}, { foretell}, { herald}] 2: make a prediction about; tell in advance; " Call the outcome of an election" [ synonym: { predict}, { foretell}, { prognosticate}, { call}, { forebode}, { anticipate}, { promise}] 3: indicate by signs; " These signs bode bad news" [ synonym: { bode}, { portend}, { auspicate}, { prognosticate}, { omen}, { presage}, { betoken}, { foreshadow}, { augur}, { foretell}, { prefigure}, { forecast}, { predict}] Foretell \ Fore* tell"\, v. i. To utter predictions. -- Acts iii. 24. [ 1913 Webster]
Foretell \ Fore* tell"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Foretold}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Foretelling}.] To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. [ 1913 Webster] Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. -- C. Middleton. Syn: To predict; prophesy; prognosticate; augur. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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