Synonyms:
predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise
Meaning: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election"
Synonyms:
announce, annunciate, harbinger, foretell, herald
Meaning: foreshadow or presage
Usage examples
No, Mr. Knightley, do not foretell vexation from that quarter."
It was not difficult, however, to foretell the result, if any presage could be drawn from the feelings of those who crowded the place.
Her father fondly replied, "Ah! my dear, I wish you would not make matches and foretell things, for whatever you say always comes to pass.
And there, too, Mopsus died, the seer who knew the voices of all birds; but he could not foretell his own end, for he was bitten in the foot by a snake, one of those which sprang from the Gorgon's head when Perseus carried it across the sands.
And say to her that what I foretell shall come to pass, and if she does not come everything in the kingdom shall fall into ruin, and not one stone shall be left upon another.' When the Princess heard this she began to cry, but it was no good; she had to keep her word.