forebode

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. prognostication; presage obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
    — There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart.
  2. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
    — Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death.

词形变化

forebodes present,singular,third-person foreboding participle,present foreboded participle,past foreboded past forbode alternative forbode alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
forebodement foreboder unforeboded

词源

词源 1
From Middle English foreboden, from Old English forebodian, equivalent to fore- + bode.
词源 2
From Middle English foreboden, from Old English forebodian, equivalent to fore- + bode.
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