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say it: fawr-BOHD
forebode is a verb meaning "make a prediction about; tell in advance". It carries one recorded sense.
make a prediction about; tell in advance
“Call the outcome of an election”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for forebode come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.