forebode

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
2. verb To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
3. noun prognostication; presage

Similar words

foretell prognosticate predict anticipate promise call forbode foreshadow forecast foretoken

Often followed by

the a evil that i some not ill an

Word family

forbode forboded forbodes forboding foreboded foreboder foreboders forebodes foreboding