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foreshadow - 3 dictionary results

fore⋅shad⋅ow

[fawr-shad-oh, fohr-]
–verb (used with object)
to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.

Origin:
1570–80; fore- + shadow


fore⋅shad⋅ow⋅er, noun
fore·shad·ow   (fôr-shād'ō, fōr-)   
tr.v.   fore·shad·owed, fore·shad·ow·ing, fore·shad·ows
To present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand; presage.
fore·shad'ow·er n.

Foreshadow

Fore*shad"ow\, v. t. To shadow or typi?y beforehand; to prefigure. --Dryden.
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