Fore‐bode″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Foreboded; p. pr. & vb. n.Foreboding.] [AS. forebodian; fore + bodian to announce. See Bodev. t.] 1. To foretell.
2. To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson.
Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death. Middleton.
I have a sort of foreboding about him. H. James.
Syn. — To foretell; predict; prognosticate; augur; presage; portend; betoken.