foreshadow

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: verb

[VN] (written) to be a sign of sth that will happen in the future: His sudden death had been foreshadowed by earlier health scares.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

foreshadowEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus foreshadowEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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Foreign Service foreknowledge foreleg forelock foreman foremost forename forensic foreplay forerunner foresee

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