Portend

Verb

 * 1)  to serve as a warning or omen
 *  A kingdom they portend thee, but what kingdom, / Real or allegoric, I discern not; Nor when: eternal sure--as without end, - John Milton, Paradise Lost
 * 1)  to signify; to denote
 * Let it be known that the Rapture portends the End of Days.

Related terms

 * portent
 * portentous

Adverbs for Portend
gloomily; darkly; unfavorably; banefully; dolefully; evilly; stormily; symbolically; ominously; prophetically; direly.

Thesaurus
adumbrate, apprehend, augur, betoken, bode, call, croak, forebode, forecast, foreshadow, foreshow, foretoken, forewarn, give advance notice, have a premonition, have a presentiment, look black, lower, menace, omen, preapprehend, precaution, predict, premonish, prenotify, presage, prewarn, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, tell in advance, threaten, vaticinate, warn

Etymology
From the portendere:, from por-: + tendere:, present active infinitive of tendo:.

Translations

 * Finnish:


 * German:, vorbedeuten,


 * Finnish:


 * German:, hindeuten, ,