fore·shad·ow

(fôr-shăd′ō)

tr.v. fore·shad·owed, fore·shad·ow·ing, fore·shad·ows

To present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand; presage: hostilities that foreshadowed all-out war.

fore·shad′ow·er n.

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foreshadow

(fɔːˈʃædəʊ)

(tr) to show, indicate, or suggest in advance; presage

foreˈshadower n

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fore•shad•ow

(fɔrˈʃæd oʊ, foʊr-)

v.t.

to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure.

[1570–80]

fore•shad′ow•er, n.

fore•shad′ow•ing, n.

foreshadow

Past participle: foreshadowed
Gerund: foreshadowing

Imperative
foreshadow
foreshadow

Present
I foreshadow
you foreshadow
he/she/it foreshadows
we foreshadow
you foreshadow
they foreshadow

Preterite
I foreshadowed
you foreshadowed
he/she/it foreshadowed
we foreshadowed
you foreshadowed
they foreshadowed

Present Continuous
I am foreshadowing
you are foreshadowing
he/she/it is foreshadowing
we are foreshadowing
you are foreshadowing
they are foreshadowing

Present Perfect
I have foreshadowed
you have foreshadowed
he/she/it has foreshadowed
we have foreshadowed
you have foreshadowed
they have foreshadowed

Past Continuous
I was foreshadowing
you were foreshadowing
he/she/it was foreshadowing
we were foreshadowing
you were foreshadowing
they were foreshadowing

Past Perfect
I had foreshadowed
you had foreshadowed
he/she/it had foreshadowed
we had foreshadowed
you had foreshadowed
they had foreshadowed

Future
I will foreshadow
you will foreshadow
he/she/it will foreshadow
we will foreshadow
you will foreshadow
they will foreshadow

Future Perfect
I will have foreshadowed
you will have foreshadowed
he/she/it will have foreshadowed
we will have foreshadowed
you will have foreshadowed
they will have foreshadowed

Future Continuous
I will be foreshadowing
you will be foreshadowing
he/she/it will be foreshadowing
we will be foreshadowing
you will be foreshadowing
they will be foreshadowing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been foreshadowing
you have been foreshadowing
he/she/it has been foreshadowing
we have been foreshadowing
you have been foreshadowing
they have been foreshadowing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been foreshadowing
you will have been foreshadowing
he/she/it will have been foreshadowing
we will have been foreshadowing
you will have been foreshadowing
they will have been foreshadowing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been foreshadowing
you had been foreshadowing
he/she/it had been foreshadowing
we had been foreshadowing
you had been foreshadowing
they had been foreshadowing

Conditional
I would foreshadow
you would foreshadow
he/she/it would foreshadow
we would foreshadow
you would foreshadow
they would foreshadow

Past Conditional
I would have foreshadowed
you would have foreshadowed
he/she/it would have foreshadowed
we would have foreshadowed
you would have foreshadowed
they would have foreshadowed

Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Verb

foreshadow - indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"

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

threaten - to be a menacing indication of something:"The clouds threaten rain"; "Danger threatens"

bespeak, betoken, indicate, signal, point - be a signal for or a symptom of; "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued"

foreshow - foretell by divine inspiration

foreshadow

verb predict, suggest, promise, indicate, signal, imply, bode, prophesy, augur, presage, prefigure, portend, betoken, adumbrate, forebode Sales figures foreshadow more redundancies.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

foreshadow

verb

To give an indication of something in advance:

adumbrate, augur, bode, forecast, forerun, foretell, foretoken, portend, prefigure, presage, prognosticate.

Translations

preannunziare preavvisare presagire

foreshadow

[fɔːˈʃædəʊ] VT → anunciar, presagiar

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

foreshadow

[fɔː^rˈʃædəʊ] vt → annoncer

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

foreshadow

vt → ahnen lassen, andeuten

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

foreshadow

[fɔːˈʃædəʊ] vt (liter) → presagire, far prevedere

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Not only is my client in no way responsible for the loss, but he distinctly foreshadowed the very thing that caused it."

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From that point, all the main events of the story are purposely foreshadowed before they take place -- my present design being to rouse the reader's interest in following the train of circumstances by which these foreseen events are brought about.

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And there rises up before me all that was there foreshadowed, and I see visions of Damon and Pythias, of life-saving crews and Red Cross nurses, of martyrs and leaders of forlorn hopes, of Father Damien, and of the Christ himself, and of all the men of earth, mighty of stature, whose strength may trace back to the elemental loins of Lop-Ear and Big-Tooth and other dim denizens of the Younger World.

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It must be confessed that this ingenious interpretation of the dream in the light of newly discovered evidence did not wholly commend itself to the son's more logical mind; he had, for the moment at least, a conviction that it foreshadowed a more simple and immediate, if less tragic, disaster than a visit to the Pacific Coast.

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"Your honor, in our remarks at the opening of this trial, we foreshadowed our purpose to prove that our client did this fearful deed while under the influence of a blind and irresponsible delirium produced by drink.

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At last, one afternoon, she arrived very late, with her face so desperately pale and her eyes so desperately red, that Raoul resolved to go to all lengths, including that which he foreshadowed when he blurted out that he would not go on the North Pole expedition unless she first told him the secret of the man's voice.

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Maule's well, all this time, though left in solitude, was throwing up a succession of kaleidoscopic pictures, in which a gifted eye might have seen foreshadowed the coming fortunes of Hepzibah and Clifford, and the descendant of the legendary wizard, and the village maiden, over whom he had thrown Love's web of sorcery.

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As she applied herself to set the tea-things, Joe peeped down at me over his leg, as if he were mentally casting me and himself up, and calculating what kind of pair we practically should make, under the grievous circumstances foreshadowed. After that, he sat feeling his right-side flaxen curls and whisker, and following Mrs.

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A pinch of his baggy throat, between the fingers and thumbs of both hands, foreshadowed a cleaner end; and yet I could look at him; nay, it was more than I could do not to look upon that bloodless face, with the two dry blots upon the parchment, that were never withdrawn from mine.

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One has all the best of the past, the other foreshadows a better future; and the men who wrote them are the only men who have written of the subject with that perfect frankness and perfect knowledge and perfect poise whose other name is genius.

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The change in the weather, foreshadowed overnight, had come.

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It is only natural that there would be the fear that these might foreshadow another and bigger earthquake.

Multiple earthquakes: So what?