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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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