portended
past simple and past participle ofportend
portend
verb[T]
formaluk/pɔːˈtend/us/pɔːrˈtend/to be asignthat somethingbadislikelytohappenin thefuture:
It was adeeplysuperstitiouscountry, whereearthquakeswerecommonlybelievedto portend the end ofdynasties.
Synonyms
augurformal
betokenold use
bodeformal
foreshadowformal
prefigureformal
presageformal
Predicting things and intuition
- augur
- augury
- bellwether
- betcha
- bode
- far-sighted
- inkling
- instinct
- intuit
- intuition
- intuitive
- presage
- prescience
- prescient
- prophecy
- prophesy
- second-guess
- the writing is on the wallidiom
- unreasoning
- visionary
Examplesofportended
portended
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
It is important to capture in some detail the full import of this failure and the tragedy itportended.
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The reality is the situation as it exists and as it isportendedin certain towns, cities and areas.
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Unless there is a more robust, credible and fully explained regulatory impact assessment, the concern must be that eventual costs will substantially outstrip those currentlyportended.
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The glassy sea, humid atmosphere, and falling barometerportendedthe approaching engagement between ship and her relentlessly violent foes, sea and wind.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Court astrologers, however, were also correct that the eventportendeddisaster.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The dream had greatly disturbed him, and he now confessed to the thought that it hadportendedthe death of one of us.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In retrospect, the joke is considered witty and yet eerily prescient because itportendedsome of the future turmoil that the artist would endure.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A comet appeared, provoking panic in the population, who feared itportendedgreat disasters.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The fact is that the mere act of intercourse by itself is not enough to show what isportended.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Prodigies were transgressions in the natural, predictable order of the cosmos signs of divine anger thatportendedconflict and misfortune.
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- one-day strike
- on edge
- on-edge
- one-dimensional
- one-dimensional
- one for the books
- one-for-the-books
- one for the road
- one-for-the-road
- one-game playoff
- one good turn deserves another
- one-good-turn-deserves-another
- one-handed
- one-handed
- one-hit wonder
- one-hit-wonder
- one-horse race
- one-horse-race
- one-horse town
- one-horse-town
- one-hour episode
- one in a million
- one-in-a-million
- oneiric
- one-lane bridge