portend

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: verb

[VN] (formal) to be a sign or warning of sth that is going to happen in the future, especially sth bad or unpleasant

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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

portendEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus portendEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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pornography porosity porous porphyry porpoise porridge port portable portage Portakabin portal

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Is portend a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, portend is tagged as verb.

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