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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Foretell \Fore*tell"\, verb (used without an object) To utter predictions. --Acts iii. 24.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Foretell \Fore*tell"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Foretold}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Foretelling}.] To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.
Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. --Pope.
Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. --C. Middleton.
Syn: To predict; prophesy; prognosticate; augur.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
foretell
verb
1: foreshadow or presage [syn: {announce}, {annunciate}, {harbinger}, {herald}]
2: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" [syn: {predict}, {prognosticate}, {call}, {forebode}, {anticipate}, {promise}]
3: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: {bode}, {portend}, {auspicate}, {prognosticate}, {omen}, {presage}, {betoken}, {foreshadow}, {augur}, {prefigure}, {forecast}, {predict}] [also: {foretold}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "foretell": adumbrate, announce, anticipate, apprehend, approach, augur, await, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, bode, call, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, come, come on, declare, disclose, divine, divulge, dope, dope out, dowse for water, draw near, draw on, expect, forebode, forecast, foreknow, foresee, foreshadow, foreshow, foretoken, forewarn, fortune-tell, guess, hariolate, hope, lie ahead, look for, look forward to, loom, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, near, plan, plot, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, proclaim, prognosticate, project, promise, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, reveal, soothsay, speculate, tell fortunes, tell the future, threaten, vaticinate, warn
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