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Portend   /pɔrtˈɛnd/   Listen
verb
Portend  v. t.  (past & past part. portended; pres. part. portending)  
1.
To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; now used esp. of unpropitious signs. "Many signs portended a dark and stormy day."
2.
To stretch out before. (R.) "Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel."
Synonyms: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur; presage; foreshadow; threaten.





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"Portend" Quotes from Famous Books



... was adopted for gaining over the other Sicilian states in order to crush Syracuse. But at this moment dispatches arrived requiring the return of Alcibiades to stand trial. Athens was in a panic over the Hermae affair, which was supposed to portend an attempt to reestablish the despotism which had been ended a hundred years before by the expulsion of the Pisistratidae. Alcibiades, however, made his escape, and for years pursued a life of political intrigue ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton
... rigging could alone be perceived. I cast my eyes aloft? What was that I saw? High up in the air, at the main-topmast-head, there was perched a ball of fire. I was so astonished, and, I may say, alarmed, that I could not speak. What could the phenomenon portend? It stayed there for some time, then all of a sudden it glided down, and went out to the main-top-sail yard-arm— a bright, glowing, flaming ball. It will be setting the ship on fire! I thought that I would go and rouse up some one to tell what I had ...
— A Voyage round the World - A book for boys • W.H.G. Kingston
... means, was learned from the strong waters given to the Abnakis by the strange spirit. And Wangewaha, the dreamer, woke from his sleep, rubbed his eyes, and indulged in deep thought of what the dream might portend. ...
— Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) • James Athearn Jones
... leaving Queenstown, the west winds met us, steady and strong; but it was not till the afternoon of Christmas day that the sea began to "get up" in earnest, and the weather to portend a gale. Then, the Atlantic seemed determined to prove that report had not exaggerated the hardships of a winter passage. It blew harder and harder all Friday, and after a brief lull on Saturday—as though gathering breath for the final onset—the storm fairly reached its height, and then slowly ...
— Border and Bastille • George A. Lawrence
... no means could I escape Cleopatra. Her mood is strangely crossed to-night. I know not what it may portend. Strange whims and fancies blow across it like light and contrary airs upon a summer sea, and I cannot ...
— Cleopatra • H. Rider Haggard


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