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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
adumbrate, apprehend, augur, betoken, bode, call, croak, forebode, forecast, foreshadow, foreshow, foretoken, forewarn, give advance notice, have a premonition, have a presentiment, look black, lower, menace, omen, preapprehend, precaution, predict, premonish, prenotify, presage, prewarn, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, tell in advance, threaten, vaticinate, warn
Dictionary Results for portend:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
portend
    v 1: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn:
         bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen,
         presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell,
         prefigure, forecast, predict]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Portend \Por*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Portended; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Portending.] [L. portendre, portentum, to foretell,
   to predict, to impend, from an old preposition used in comp.
   + tendere to stretch. See Position, Tend.]
   1. To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to
      foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of
      unpropitious signs. --Bacon.
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            Many signs portended a dark and stormy day.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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   2. To stretch out before. [R.] "Doomed to feel the great
      Idomeneus' portended steel." --Pope.
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   Syn: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur;
        presage; foreshadow; threaten.
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