Synonyms for foreshadow
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : fawr-shad-oh, fohr- |
| Phonetic Transcription : fɔrˈʃæd oʊ, foʊr- |
Top 10 synonyms for foreshadow Other synonyms for the word foreshadow
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
- 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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