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BODE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indicate, as with a sign or an omen

Example:

These signs bode bad news

Synonyms:

augur; auspicate; betoken; bode; forecast; foreshadow; foretell; omen; portend; predict; prefigure; presage; prognosticate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "bode" is one way to...):

bespeak; betoken; indicate; point; signal (be a signal for or a symptom of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bode"):

threaten (to be a menacing indication of something)

foreshow (foretell by divine inspiration)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

If, for example, you are filing a trademark or patent, under these twinkling stars, the future bodes well for your venture.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The day may come when it may look back regretfully to the snug nest in the thornbush, but what does it reck of that when spring is in the air and youth in its blood, and the old hawk of trouble has not yet darkened the sunshine with the ill-boding shadow of its wings?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We came at last to the wooden gate with the high stone pillars by the roadside, and, looking through between the rails, we saw the long avenue of oaks, and at the end of this ill-boding tunnel, the pale face of the house glimmered in the moonshine.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)