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Verb foretell has 3 senses
- announce, annunciate, harbinger, foretell, herald - foreshadow or presage
--1 is one way to tell
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise - make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election"
--2 is one way to guess, venture, pretend, hazard
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict - indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
--3 is one way to bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
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