portend🔊

To serve as a warning or omen of.

📑 Synonyms: foreshadow presage

💬 Quotations

A kingdom they portend thee, but what kingdom, / Real or allegoric, I discern not; Nor when: eternal sure--as without end,

John Milton, Paradise Regained (1671)

To signify; to denote.

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