What is another word for Portended?

Pronunciation: [pɔːtˈɛndɪd] (IPA)

The word "portended" refers to something that forecasts or indicates a future occurrence. There are various synonyms for this word, which include "foreshadowed," "heralded," "predicted," "prefigured," "signaled," and "augured." Each of these words has its own unique meaning but shares the common idea of expressing something that anticipates a future event. "Foreshadowed" suggests that there is an impending event, while "heralded" is used to refer to something that indicates the coming of something important or significant. "Predicted" implies that a future event is foretold with some level of certainty. Similarly, the words "prefigured" and "signaled" refer to something that is indicative of a future situation. Lastly, "augured" implies that an event is potentially indicative of a future outcome and often has a negative connotation.

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Usage examples for Portended

Crimmins knew of old what that mouth Portended, and he spoke hurriedly.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson
Two minutes passed, and the inspector began to think that his eyesight was failing, or that a worse thing Portended.
"The Sins of Séverac Bablon"
Sax Rohmer
The great heat which had prevailed during so many successive days there, Portended some such change as this; and we were thus likely to be caught in that very region so subject to inundation, which I was formerly so careful to avoid, that I endeavoured to travel so as to be within reach of a hilly country.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell

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