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Foretell

//fɔɹˈtɛl// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To predict; to tell (the future) before it occurs; to prophesy. ambitransitive

    "Deeds then undone me faithful tongue foretold."

  2. 2
    indicate, as with a sign or an omen wordnet
  3. 3
    To tell (a person) of the future. transitive

    "[…] there came to him a Person named Saul, whom Samuel had never before seen; but God made him know it was the same he had foretold him of."

  4. 4
    make a prediction about; tell in advance wordnet
  5. 5
    foreshadow or presage wordnet

Etymology

c. 1300, from Middle English foretellen, equivalent to fore- + tell.

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