英语词汇“foretell”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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foretell

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	foretell
	he, she, it	foretells
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	foretold
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have foretold
	he, she, it	has foretold
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had foretold
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will foretell
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have foretold

Continuous Form
Present	I	am foretelling
	he, she, it	is foretelling
	you, we, they	are foretelling
Past	I, he, she, it	was foretelling
	you, we, they	were foretelling
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been foretelling
	he, she, it	has been foretelling
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been foretelling
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be foretelling
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been foretelling

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Everything happened as Merlin foretold.
Nostradamus is said to have foretold the rise of Hitler.
The end of the world is foretold in the biblical book of Revelations.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

I am, but can not foretell the future.
I can not foretell what proposals it will contain, but without an effective ceasefire no one can be deployed.
It could not foretell the future.
Luckily, they happen upon a blind poet who foretells their future and helps them start their journey.
None of us had foretold that our games would end up on life-support systems in intensive care.
The most extreme pessimists foretell a future of demographically driven privation, environmental overshoot, and economic collapse.
This act, as noted above, had been foretold of the Messiah by the prophet Zechariah.

THESAURUS► predict

to say that something will happen, before it happens: · In the future, it may be possible to predict earthquakes.· Scientists are trying to predict what the Amazon will look like in 20 years' time.

► forecast

to say what is likely to happen in the future, especially in relation to the weather or the economic or political situation: · They’re forecasting a hard winter.· Economists forecast that there would be a recession.

► project

to say what the amount, size, cost etc of something is likely to be in the future, using the information you have now: · The world’s population is projected to rise by 45%.

► can say

especially spoken be able to know what will happen in the future: · No one can say what the next fifty years will bring.· I can’t say exactly how much it will cost.

► foretell

to say correctly what will happen in the future, using special religious or magical powers: · The woman claimed that she had the gift of foretelling the future.· It all happened as the prophet had foretold.

► prophesy

to say that something will happen because you feel that it will, or by using special religious or magical powers: · He’s one of those people who are always prophesying disaster.· The coming of a great Messiah is prophesied in the Bible.· He prophesied that the world would end in 2012.· Marx prophesied that capitalism would destroy itself.

► foresee

to know that something is going to happen before it happens: · They should have foreseen these problems.· No one foresaw the outcome of the war.

► have a premonition

to have a strange feeling that something is about to happen, especially something bad, usually just before it happens: · Suddenly I had a strange premonition of danger ahead.

Longman Language Activatorto say what will happen in the future► predict

to say what you think will happen in the future: · Most of the papers are predicting an easy victory for the Dallas Cowboys.· a major earthquake that no-one had predictedpredict (that): · Some scientists predict that the Earth's temperature will rise by as much as 5° over the next 20 years.

► forecast

to publicly say what will happen in the future with the weather or the economic or political situation, especially when you have special or technical knowledge: · Property analysts forecast a fall in house prices.forecast rain/fine weather/snow etc: · Rain is forecast for all parts of southern England tomorrow.forecast that: · Hardly anyone had forecast that the drought would last so long.

► prophesy

to say that something will happen, especially because you have religious or magical powers: · It is claimed that Ebba prophesied her own death from the plague. prophesy that: · Jesus prophesied that one of his disciples would betray him.prophesy about: · Her ability to prophesy about the future made many people think she was a witch.

► foretell

to say what will happen in the future, especially by using magical powers - used in literature and stories: · Nostradamus is said to have foretold the rise of Hitler.· Everything happened as Merlin foretold.

► second-guess

to try to predict what an opponent will do in order to gain an advantage over them: · I just couldn't get the ball past him; he second-guessed me every time.· Second-guessing the bank's next move in the takeover bid proved very difficult.

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► foretell the future

(=say or show what will happen in the future)· Some people think that dreams can foretell the future.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► future

· I am, but can not foretell the future.· Luckily, they happen upon a blind poet who foretells their future and helps them start their journey.· It could not foretell the future.· He had the power both of foretelling the future and of changing his shape at will.· The most extreme pessimists foretell a future of demographically driven privation, environmental overshoot, and economic collapse.