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serve as a sign of something about to happen — typically something bad- Does the warm summer presage a climate change catastrophe?
presage = serve as a sign of coming
- We see none of the pessimism that typically presages a recession.
- My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
- Now, it must be admitted that there is no symptom or presage of the approach of such a revolution.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
- The air was cold and still, presaging a storm.Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song
- Garrett knew the dark, heavy clouds on the horizon presaged a coming storm.Nicholas Sparks -- Message in a Bottle
- You know that I held Epicurus strong, And his opinion: now I change my mind, And partly credit things that do presage.William Shakespeare -- Julius Caesar
- Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And even the story ran that he could gauge.Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
- She told Inspector Thomas Mathew how in the last few weeks she had noticed some presaging signs, some insolence, some rudeness.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- It signified a crisis nearer than even her fears had presaged, and infinitely worse.Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
- Her nerves presaged strain.Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
- The women of the oasis met them with gloomy faces presaging bad news, and they were reluctant to tell it.Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert
- Laws that Presage TyrannyAlexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
- Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- In time I forgot the circumstance, though there was much talk of it as a presage of the Messiah.Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
- To the east, a faint yellow glow tinted a section of the horizon, presaging the return of the sun.Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
- And his opposite, the youth, bears in his visage no great presage of cruelty.William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night
- He knew young vampires only too well; did this emotion presage some misstep on my part?Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
- The yellow and vapoury sunset which had wrapped up Eustacia from his parting gaze had presaged change.Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
- The smoke in the corridor had presaged heat; the heat was here now, pressing against him like an oppressive wall.Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass
presages = serves as a sign of coming
presage = are a sign of
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