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Synonyms for foreshadow


Grammar : Verb
Spell : fawr-shad-oh, fohr-
Phonetic Transcription : fɔrˈʃæd oʊ, foʊr-

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Définition of foreshadow

Origin :
  • 1570s, from fore- + shadow (v.); the notion is of a shadow thrown before an advancing material object as an image of something suggestive of what is to come. Related: Foreshadowed; foreshadowing.
  • verb indicate
Example sentences :
  • Their great compeers, the giants of thought, foreshadow what it will be.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 » by Various
  • There was not a thing to foreshadow that either of us was to be jerked from his profession.
  • Extract from : « The Blind Spot » by Austin Hall
  • Now let us examine this hypothesis, and see if it does not foreshadow and sustain our own.
  • Extract from : « The Spirit of God As Fire » by D. Mortimore
  • These rose-tinted dawns too often foreshadow the storm-cloud.
  • Extract from : « Ruth Hall » by Fanny Fern
  • He implored him for strength to avert the disasters which this night seemed to foreshadow.
  • Extract from : « Christ Legends » by Selma Lagerlf
  • No seer was needed to foreshadow the success the Marietta colony was to have.
  • Extract from : « Historic Towns of the Western States » by Various
  • It was, without doubt, the foreshadow of their whole history.
  • Extract from : « Hereward, The Last of the English » by Charles Kingsley
  • It has already been suggested that death may foreshadow another existence.
  • Extract from : « Benign Stupors » by August Hoch
  • Why should we attempt to foreshadow in words a destiny and a nature like hers?
  • Extract from : « The Gold Brick » by Ann S. Stephens
  • Borrow said: "They (corpse-candles) foreshadow deaths, don't they?"
  • Extract from : « Stranger Than Fiction » by Mary L. Lewes
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