bode
verb
[ bəʊd ]
• be a portent of a particular outcome.
• "their argument did not bode well for the future"
Similar:
augur,
presage,
portend,
foretell,
prophesy,
predict,
forebode,
foreshadow,
herald,
be an omen of,
warn of,
indicate,
signify,
be a sign of,
purport,
point to,
threaten,
promise,
spell,
mean,
betoken,
foretoken,
adumbrate,
Origin:
Old English bodian ‘proclaim, foretell’, from boda ‘messenger’, of Germanic origin; related to German Bote, also to bid1.
