foreshadow

foreshadow
Synonyms and related words:
adumbrate, adumbration, augur, augury, auspicate, auspice, betoken, betokening, betokenment, bode, body forth, demonstrate, embody, exemplify, figure, forebode, foreshadowing, foreshow, foreshowing, foretoken, foretokening, have a hunch, have an intimation, hint, illustrate, image, impersonate, incarnate, indicant, indicate, indication, mirror, omen, personate, personify, portend, portent, predict, prefiguration, prefigure, preindication, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, presage, presignifying, pretypify, prognostic, prognostication, project, promise, prophesy, realize, reflect, shadow, shadow forth, sign, signal, signify, soothsay, token, tokening, type

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  • Foreshadow — Fore*shad ow, v. t. To shadow or typi?y beforehand; to prefigure. Dryden. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • foreshadow — I verb adumbrate, augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, divine, forebode, forecast, forewarn, herald, point to, portend, precurse, predestine, predict, prefigure, premonstrate, presage, preshow, presignify, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, threaten,… …   Law dictionary

  • foreshadow — (v.) 1570s, from FORE (Cf. fore ) + SHADOW (Cf. shadow); the notion is of a shadow thrown before an advancing material object as an image of something suggestive of what is to come. Related: Foreshadowed; foreshadowing …   Etymology dictionary

  • foreshadow — [v] indicate adumbrate, augur, be in the wind*, betoken, bode, forebode, foretell, hint, imply, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, promise, prophesy, shadow, signal, suggest, telegraph; concepts 70,75,261 …   New thesaurus

  • foreshadow — ► VERB ▪ be a warning or indication of …   English terms dictionary

  • foreshadow — [fôrshad′ō] vt. to be a sign of (something to come); indicate or suggest beforehand; prefigure; presage …   English World dictionary

  • Foreshadow — This article is about the Polish record label Foreshadow . For the literary device, see foreshadowing. For the fictional starship on the sci fi television show LEXX, see Foreshadow (LEXX). Foreshadow is a Polish record label specializing in… …   Wikipedia

  • foreshadow — UK [fɔː(r)ˈʃædəʊ] / US [fɔrˈʃædoʊ] verb [transitive] Word forms foreshadow : present tense I/you/we/they foreshadow he/she/it foreshadows present participle foreshadowing past tense foreshadowed past participle foreshadowed if something… …   English dictionary

  • foreshadow — [[t]fɔː(r)ʃæ̱doʊ[/t]] foreshadows, foreshadowing, foreshadowed VERB If something foreshadows an event or situation, it suggests that it will happen. [V n] The disappointing sales figures foreshadow more redundancies... [V n] The change proposed… …   English dictionary

  • foreshadow — verb those things that foreshadow war are sadly upon us Syn: signal, indicate, signify, mean, be a sign of, suggest, herald, be a harbinger of, warn of, portend, prefigure, presage, promise, point to, anticipate; informal spell; literary forebode …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • Foreshadow (Lexx) — The Foreshadow is one of His Divine Shadow s predecessor weapons of mass destruction, from the sci fi television series LEXX. Function In a similar fashion to the Lexx , the Foreshadow is a planet killing starship, used to destroy heretic worlds …   Wikipedia

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