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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Foresee \Fore*see"\, verb (used with an object) [AS. forese['o]n; fore + se['o]n to see. See {See}, verb (used with an object)]
1. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.
A prudent man foreseeth the evil. --Prov. xxii. 3.
2. To provide. [Obs.]
Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. --Bacon.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Foresee \Fore*see"\, verb (used without an object) To have or exercise foresight. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
foresee
verb
1: realize beforehand [syn: {anticipate}, {previse}, {foreknow}]
2: picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him as President" [syn: {envision}]
3: act in advance of; deal with ahead of time [syn: {anticipate}, {forestall}, {counter}] [also: {foreseen}, {foresaw}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "foresee": anticipate, apprehend, approach, augur, await, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, come, come on, contemplate, descry, discern, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, draw near, draw on, dread, envisage, envision, espy, expect, face, forebode, forecast, foreglimpse, foreknow, forerun, forestall, foretaste, foretell, fortune-tell, get ahead of, go before, go off half-cocked, guess, hariolate, have in mind, hope, jump the gun, lie ahead, look ahead, look beyond, look for, look forward to, loom, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, near, perceive, picture, plan, plot, predict, prefigure, presage, presume, prevision, prognosticate, project, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, see, see ahead, see beforehand, soothsay, speculate, take for granted, tell fortunes, tell the future, think, threaten, vaticinate, visualize, win the start
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