Portend

[pɔː'tend] or [pɔr'tɛnd]

解释:

(v. t.) To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs.

(v. t.) To stretch out before.

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同义词及近义词：

v. a. Presage, forebode, foretoken, betoken, foreshow, foreshadow, augur, prognosticate, threaten, indicate.

录入:莱尔

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Indicate, threaten, prognosticate, forbode, augur, presage, herald, foreshow,betoken

ANT:Contradict, negative, preclude, forefend, nullify, contravene, avert

手打:特伦斯

解释:

v.t. to indicate the future by signs: to betoken: presage.—n. Por′tent that which portends or foreshows: an evil omen.—adj. Portent′ous serving to portend: foreshadowing ill: wonderful dreadful prodigious.—adv. Portent′ously.

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