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presage
verb presaged, presaging
    1. To warn of or be a warning sign of something; to foreshadow, forebode or portend.
      Thesaurus: predict, forecast, foretell, prognosticate, prophesy, portend, foresee, foreshadow, forewarn, signify, soothsay, augur, divine, warn.
    2. To have a premonition about something.
noun
    formal or literary:
    1. A portent, warning or omen.
      Thesaurus: omen, portent, sign, warning, harbinger, prophecy, prediction, prognostication, augury, intimation.
    2. A premonition.
      Thesaurus: feeling, foreboding, presentiment, premonition, misgiving, apprehension.
Derivative: presageful
adj
    Derivative: presager
    noun
      Etymology: 14c: from French présage, from Latin praesagium, from praesagire to forebode.



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