forbode

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The oppressive pressure, Raffles noted, “seemed to forbode an earthquake.”

From Scientific American • Mar. 1, 2013

The lyrics she has written in 1940 forbode Millay-things probably to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

The blackening wave is edged with white; To inch and rock the sea-mews fly; The fishers have heard the Water-Sprite, Whose screams forbode that wreck is nigh.

From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Palgrave, Francis Turner

My town friends, indeed, ascribe my sojourn here to a similar disposition, and forbode me no good result.

From On the Choice of Books by Carlyle, Thomas

He his beyonde goddes forbode, he wil neuer amende.

From A Merry Dialogue Declaringe the Properties of Shrowde Shrews and Honest Wives by Erasmus, Desiderius