foreshow
[verb]
Synonyms: augur, betoken, bode, forebode, foreshadow, foretoken, omen, portend, presage, promise, announce, forerun, harbinger, herald, preindicate

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foreshow verb trans. [fɔ:'ʃǝʊ] arch. Pa. pple -shown [-'ʃǝʊn], -showed. Also foreshew, pa. pple -shewn, -shewed. OE.
[from FORE- + SHOW verb.]
1. Look out for; provide. OE-ME.

2. Foretell, give promise or warning of, prefigure. LME.
■ Pope Astrologers, that future fates foreshow.
■ J. Imison The falling of the mercury forshews thunder.

3. Show, display, betoken. L16-E17.
■ Shakespeare Pericles Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart.

■ foreshower noun a person who foretells; a thing which prefigures or portends: M16-M18.

■ forshowing noun (a) the action of the verb; (b) a prognostication, a sign or token of a future event: OE.

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