foreshadowverb [ T ]
uk/fɔːˈʃæd.əʊ/us/fɔːrˈʃæd.oʊ/formalto act as a warning or sign of a future event:
The recent outbreak of violence was foreshadowed by isolated incidents in the city earlier this year.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Predicting things and intuition
- augur
- augury
- bellwether
- betcha
- bode
- far-sighted
- intuition
- intuitive
- nasty
- omen
- ominous
- projection
- prophetic
- psychic
- read sb's mind idiom
- read sb's palm idiom
- read the runes idiom
- scenario
- scent
- visionary
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