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All that week I had a steadily escalating sense of foreboding.foreboding = feeling that something bad would happen
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Seeing a black cat always gives my grandmother a sense of foreboding.foreboding = a feeling that something bad is going to happen
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It came about that on a certain day Rostam rose from his couch and his mind was filled with forebodings. (source)forebodings = feelings that bad things are going to happen
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Flora's sense of foreboding deepened, expanded. (source)foreboding = a feeling that something bad is going to happen
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"You are always foreboding gloomy things!" said the others. (source)foreboding = with a feeling that something bad is going to happen
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I went about, however, with a heart which was full of forebodings. (source)forebodings = feelings that bad things are going to happen
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So it is with good reason that most of us meet this dangerous interstice with a sense of foreboding.† (source)foreboding = a feeling that something bad is going to happen
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I respect your forebodings too well.† (source)forebodings = feelings that bad things are going to happen
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And while it passes, Louis, we are aware of downfalling, we forebode decay.† (source)forebode = have a sense that something bad will happen; or act as a sign that something bad will happen
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He returned pampered and proud, to tell his rapacious countrymen of the wealth and the simplicity of the Saxon nobles—a folly, oh, Athelstane, foreboded of old, as well as foreseen, by those descendants of Hengist and his hardy tribes, who retained the simplicity of their manners.† (source)foreboded = warned (before hand) that something bad would happen
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BEOWULF FOREBODES ILL FROM THE WEDDING OF FREAWARU: HE TELLS OF GRENDEL AND HIS DAM.† (source)FOREBODES = warns ahead of time that something bad will happen
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And he dreaded that mind: it revolted him: he shrank forebodingly from the idea of committing Isabella to its keeping. (source)forebodingly = with a sense that something bad will happen
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Go prophesy at home, thy sons advise: Here thou art sage in vain—I better read the skies Unnumber'd birds glide through the aerial way; Vagrants of air, and unforeboding stray.† (source)unforeboding = without a feeling that something bad is going to happenstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unforeboding means not and reverses the meaning of foreboding. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Despite Max's optimism, the rain he saw outside mirrored his growing foreboding.† (source)foreboding = a feeling that something bad is going to happen
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But Rufo is as full of dire forebodings as a cheap melodrama.† (source)forebodings = feelings that bad things are going to happen
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But that thou mayst not joy to see me thus, So as thou e'er shalt 'scape this darksome realm Open thine ears and hear what I forebode.† (source)forebode = have a sense that something bad will happen; or act as a sign that something bad will happen
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