presaging
present participle ofpresage
presage
verb[T]
formaluk/ˈpres.ɪdʒ//prɪˈseɪdʒ/us/ˈpres.ɪdʒ//prɪˈseɪdʒ/to show orsuggestthat something, often somethingunpleasant, willhappen:
But still theeconomyis notshowingsignsof any of the excesses thatnormallypresage arecession.
Synonyms
augurformal
betokenold use
bodeformal
foreshadowformal
portendformal
prefigureformal
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
Examplesofpresaging
presaging
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The troubled colossus was being turned briefly into a people's fun palace, its gloomy threat spirited away,presagingits recasting as the locus of democracy.
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We could also make clear the need for an honest answer on the unemployment figures before the election, and an end to the lies that arepresagingthat election.
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Now she seemed impelled to paint huge stark canvases in black and white, all of war orpresagingwar.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Additionally, he took on work for advertising and commercial illustration,presaginghis focus on industrial photography two decades later.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In 1935, he was awarded the second-highest agrgation mark in the nation for philosophy,presaginga bright future.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There were also notable actions by women in wider society,presagingtheir wider engagement in politics which would come with the second wave.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Presagingan era of state censorship and control of culture.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It also adopts an impressionist approach to its imagery, oftenpresagingevents with familiar objects, patterns and colours using associative editing techniques.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Smith professed that he had visionary dreams with highly symbolic content, perhaps related to his ambivalence about religious faith and sometimespresagingevents to come.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He devoted the last half of his career to understanding that end,presagingthose contemporary ecologists who advocate the understanding of the interface between ecology and agriculture.
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- layer of bureaucracy
- layer of clay
- layer of clay
- layer of cloth
- layer of cloth
- layer of clothing
- layer of complexity
- layer of complexity
- layer of concrete
- layer of dirt
- layer of dust
- layer of dust
- layer of fat
- layer of fat
- layer of material
- layer of material
- lay sth at sb's door
- lay-sth-at-sb-s-door
- lay sth down
- lay-sth-down
- lay sth in
- lay-sth-in
- lay sth off
- lay-sth-off
- lay sth on