boded
past simple and past participle ofbode
bode
verb[IorT]
formaluk/bəʊd/us/boʊd/to be asignof something that willhappenin thefuture, usually something very good orbad:
Theserecentlypublishedfiguresbodeill/do not bodewellfor the company'sfuture.
Thehurricanebodesdisasterforthoseareasinitspath.
Synonyms
augurformal
betokenold use
foreshadowformal
portendformal
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
Examplesofboded
boded
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Included among these were financial restructuring and privatisation masterplans thatbodedwell for capital market growth.
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By the 1930s, the belief that pre-initiation pregnanciesbodedill fortune for clan, chief and community was highly contested, but it was far from extinct.
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All of which would not havebodedwell for some of the last government's cherished policies.
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For them not to do so would have led to a deterioration in their image which would not havebodedwell for them.
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In its final form, the financial perspectivebodeddifficulties that manifested themselves in preparing the budget for 2008.
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Bottles were thrown at the club windows, and appearancesbodedno good to the club and its inmates.
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Nevertheless, reaching the national final was a monumental feat for a second year franchise, andbodedwell for the future.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Although this was mere fancy, itbodedill for the larger aircraft.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At first there had been a total collection of agricultural products for the final phase of the operation, whichbodedno good for the population.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Hamill was paid $25 for what was his first published story, and the occasionbodedwell for both subject and author.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.His first season, in which he scored seven goals in thirty games,bodedwell for the future, but during the following season he did not live up to expectations.
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- 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
- lay-sth-on
- lay sth on the line
- lay-sth-on-the-line