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What does foretell mean?

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  1. (transitive) To predict; to tell the future before it occurs; to prophesy.
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My follow up to this story was that Joe could foretell his future back then.
With the big day looming, young gun Tommy clashes with a baleful old timer and finds himself plagued by dreams that foretell a death by booting.
If she does not, the ancient prophecies foretell doom and destruction over all the earth.
The prophecies of Nostradamus are said to foretell events centuries in his future.
And we have become almost immune to those harbingers of doom who foretell the end of the world.
In pagan times poets were thought to be gifted with second sight, able in a trance or frenzy to foretell future events.

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