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1. Foreshadow or presage
   - announce, annunciate, harbinger, herald
    
2. Make a prediction about; tell in advance
   "foretell the outcome of an election";
   - predict, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise
    
3. Be a sign of something to come, esp. something important or bad
   "These signs foretell bad news";
   - bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken [archaic], foreshadow, augur, prefigure, forecast, predict, foretoken

Derived forms: foretells, foretelling, foretold

Type of: bespeak, betoken [archaic], guess, hazard, indicate, point, pretend, signal, tell, venture