forbode

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The oppressive pressure, Raffles noted, “seemed to forbode an earthquake.”

From Scientific American • Mar. 1, 2013

The lyrics she has written in 1940 forbode Millay-things probably to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The Peace Treaty," wrote Italy's most influential journal, "and its correlate forbode for the near future the Continental hegemony of France countersigned by the Anglo-American alliance."

From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph

As night-time approaches, it is supposed that this invisible personage rides through the air with his yelping hounds; their weird sound being thought to forbode misfortune of some kind.

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

I wish it so may prove; my mind is a bad prophet to me, and what it does forbode of ill, it seldom fails to pay me.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir