foreshadow
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /fɔːˈʃadəʊ/
foreshadow (foreshadows, present participle foreshadowing; past and past participle foreshadowed)
- (transitive) To presage, or suggest something in advance. [from 16th c.]
- 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge 2008, p. 84:
- It all sounds to us remarkably nineteenth-century; Petrarch's romantic sentiments foreshadow with uncanny precision those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Alfred de Musset.
- 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge 2008, p. 84:
- French: augurer, présager
- Italian: presagire, prevedere, predire
- Portuguese: pressagiar
- Russian: предви́деть
- Spanish: presagiar
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