FORETELL


Meaning of FORETELL in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

foretell the future (= say or show what will happen in the future )

Some people think that dreams can foretell the future.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

future

I am, but can not foretell the future .

Luckily, they happen upon a blind poet who foretells their future and helps them start their journey.

It could not foretell the future .

He had the power both of foretelling the future and of changing his shape at will.

The most extreme pessimists foretell a future of demographically driven privation, environmental overshoot, and economic collapse.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Everything happened as Merlin foretold.

Nostradamus is said to have foretold the rise of Hitler.

The end of the world is foretold in the biblical book of Revelations.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

I am, but can not foretell the future.

I can not foretell what proposals it will contain, but without an effective ceasefire no one can be deployed.

It could not foretell the future.

Luckily, they happen upon a blind poet who foretells their future and helps them start their journey.

None of us had foretold that our games would end up on life-support systems in intensive care.

The most extreme pessimists foretell a future of demographically driven privation, environmental overshoot, and economic collapse.

This act, as noted above, had been foretold of the Messiah by the prophet Zechariah.

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