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foreshadow🔊

To suggest (someone or something) in advance; to prefigure, to presage.

💬 Quotations
"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said [Ebenezer] Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!"

(rare) Of a person: to have an intuition or premonition about (something); to forebode.

💬 Quotations
Another consequence that he had never foreshadowed, was the implication of an innocent man in his supposed murder.

A suggestion of something in advance; a harbinger, a portent.

📑 Synonyms: foretouch foreshadowing
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