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portend 音标拼音: [pɔrt'ɛnd] vt. 成为…的前兆,预知,给与…的警告 成为…的前兆,预知,给与…的警告 portend v 1: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [synonym: {bode}, {portend}, {auspicate}, {prognosticate}, {omen}, {presage}, {betoken}, {foreshadow}, {augur}, {foretell}, {prefigure}, {forecast}, {predict}] Portend \Por*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Portended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Portending}.] [L. portendre, portentum, to foretell, to predict, to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. tendere to stretch. See {Position}, {Tend}.] 1. To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 2. To stretch out before. [R.] "Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel." --Pope. [1913 Webster] Syn: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur; presage; foreshadow; threaten. [1913 Webster] 34 Moby Thesaurus words for "portend":
adumbrate, apprehend, augur, betoken, bode, call, croak, forebode, forecast, foreshadow, foreshow, foretoken, forewarn, give advance notice, have a premonition, have a presentiment, look black, lower, menace, omen, preapprehend, precaution, predict, premonish, prenotify, presage, prewarn, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, tell in advance, threaten, vaticinate, warn
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