The difference between Forebode and Foretell
When used as verbs, forebode means to predict a future event, whereas foretell means to predict.
Forebode is also noun with the meaning: prognostication.
check bellow for the other definitions of Forebode and Foretell
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Forebode as a verb:
To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
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Forebode as a verb:
To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
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Forebode as a noun (obsolete):
prognostication; presage
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Foretell as a verb (ambitransitive):
To predict; to tell the future before it occurs; to prophesy.