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foreshadow

[ fawr-shad-oh, fohr- ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure:

    Political upheavals foreshadowed war.



foreshadow

/ fɔːˈʃædəʊ /

verb

  1. tr to show, indicate, or suggest in advance; presage
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • foreˈshadower, noun
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Other Words From

  • fore·shadow·er noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of foreshadow1

First recorded in 1570–80; fore- + shadow
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Example Sentences

Neatly, it also serves as foreshadowing for Paris’s romance with Asher Fleming, also introduced in this episode.

From Vox

The huge buildup in delinquencies foreshadows the flood to come.

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His attorney will likely claim self-defense, as foreshadowed by the president.

From Fortune

So while modest, Neuralink’s research already foreshadows how this technology could one day change life as we know it.

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And, a few researchers suspect, it may even foreshadow a new perspective on reality.

But the cold hard numbers that Korb advances foreshadow a day of reckoning, just not yet.

That would only foreshadow the “fractured antislavery world” to come, as Kantrowitz calls it, which emerged after the Civil War.

Weirdly, he mostly avoided Cubism, even though he got wild Cezannes that foreshadow that movement.

The harshest hit in what's available publicly is saved for the Obamas and could foreshadow a talking point if she runs in 2012.

Those allusions to former times foreshadow an evil intent on their part.

These events were supposed to foreshadow the speedy demise of the Peel administration.

It is impossible to predict or in any way to foreshadow any fusion of these hostile elements.

Their flight was considered to foreshadow evil to the royal family, and their reappearance was regarded as a happy omen.

Just as death seemed a protracted sleep, so did the dream come to foreshadow the life after death.

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