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portendsverbpresent tense third-person singular of portend formal + literaryto be a sign or warning that something usually bad or unpleasant is going to happenThe distant thunder portended a storm. If you're superstitious, a black cat portends trouble. bodes, forebodes(also forbodes), promisesaugurs, calls, forecasts, foretells, predicts, presages, prognosticates, prophesies, reads, vaticinatesalerts, cautions, forewarns, warnsanticipates, divines, foreknows, foreseesannounces, declares, heralds, proclaims describes, narrates, recites, recounts, relates, reports, tells |