Category:Portend

Por*tend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Portended; p. pr. & vb. n. Portending.] Etym: [l. portendre, portentum, to foretell, to predict, To impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to Stretch. See position, tend.]

1. To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; To foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay.

2. To stretch out before. [r.] "doomed to feel the great idomeneus' Portended steel." Pope.

Syn. -- to foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur; presage; Foreshadow; threaten.