to presage
5
8.8
- verb
- /ˈprɛsɪdʒ/
- Literature
:
presagiar
- The dark clouds in the sky seem to presage a heavy storm later today.
- presage the demise
- presage a change
- presages the key role
He he presages the discovery of the laser.
- He he presages the discovery of the laser.
- All of this presaged a golden period in in in Cuban letters.
- Where basically she presaged this time when, you know, people would start delivering food to us and we would have less and less reason to leave our homes.
Examples
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So your facility with doing that may presage a bit of the results.
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The primary significance of this was thought to be that it presaged extraordinary adult achievement across fields of endeavor.
Academic text (1996) -
Above all, the lives of those one knew have taken turns that must presage something big around the corner.
Fiction book (2000) -
The move into Hong Kong could presage a move against Taiwan.
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Flat profits, an expensive lease, and partner disputes presage the end.
Academic text (2009) -
Does publicly lining up the Christians with the army presage further problems between the faiths?
Blog text (26) -
Without question, the conquest of the Khanate was presaged by a series of polemical attacks against Islam.
Academic text (2007) -
Franco's demise in 1975 presaged a new vision of a democratic and diverse Spain.
Academic text (2003) -
I felt a tingle crawl up my spine, a sense of imminence presaging the close presence of some peculiar event.
Fiction book (1999) -
Tightening global oil supplies and voraciously rising demand presage a future of cutthroat mercantilist competition among the great powers.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
812
3.0
To say what will happen in the future
54
2.5
To say what will probably happen using information, for example about weather or business
41
7.0
To say what will happen in the future
16
6.2
To give a small sign that something will happen in the future
16
7.2
To be a sign that something good or bad will happen
13
8.4
To show that something, often bad, will probably happen
7
5.8
To happen earlier and show what will come later
4
8.6
To be a sign that something will happen
3
9.3
To say what will happen in the future using clues
1
9.3
To be a sign of something
1
8.0
To be a sign that something will happen later
To say what will happen by reading signs
To seem to show that something bad will happen
Predict an event from a sign or dream
To know something before it happens
To say what will happen in the future because someone has spiritual power
How Ominous
- Formal
13
8.4
- Literature
5
8.8
16
6.2
834
2.7
136
2.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb presage comes from the same Latin parts prae- 'before' and sagire 'to feel or know', so to presage something is to give a sign or warning that it will happen soon.