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Prefigure

To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow.

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Bespeak 76% connected

To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Betoken 76% connected

To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Envisage 76% connected

To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ideate 76% connected

The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Imagine 76% connected

To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Indicate 76% connected

To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Signal 76% connected

A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agr…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Foreshow 76% connected

To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Threaten 76% connected

To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeab…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 6

Adumbration 74% connected

The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Adumbration 74% connected

The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Prefiguration 74% connected

The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Prefiguration 74% connected

The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 12

Augur 92% connected

An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenome…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Auspicate 92% connected

Auspicious.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Betoken 92% connected

To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bode 92% connected

To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Forecast 92% connected

To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Foreshadow 92% connected

To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Foretell 92% connected

To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Omen 92% connected

An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a p…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Portend 92% connected

To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Predict 92% connected

To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Presage 92% connected

Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prognosticate 92% connected

To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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