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- Dictionaryforeshadow/fəˈʃadəʊ/
verb
- 1. be a warning or indication of (a future event): "other new measures are foreshadowed in the White Paper"
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to act as a warning or sign of a future event: The recent outbreak of violence was foreshadowed by isolated incidents in the city earlier this year. Synonyms. augurformal. betokenold use. bodeformal. portendformal. prefigureformal. presageformal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Predicting things and intuition. augury. bellwether.
The meaning of FORESHADOW is to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure. How to use foreshadow in a sentence.
To foreshadow is to predict something or to give a hint of what is to come. Your kid sister's ability to take apart a toaster and put it back together might foreshadow a successful career in electronics.
to act as a warning or sign of a future event: The recent outbreak of violence was foreshadowed by isolated incidents in the city earlier this year. Synonyms. augur formal. betoken old use. bode formal. portend formal. prefigure formal. presage formal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Predicting things and intuition. augury. bellwether.
Foreshadow definition: to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure. See examples of FORESHADOW used in a sentence.
(fɔːʳʃædoʊ ) Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense foreshadows , present participle foreshadowing , past tense, past participle foreshadowed. verb. If something foreshadows an event or situation, it suggests that it will happen. The disappointing sales figures foreshadow more redundancies. [VERB noun]
foreshadow something to be a sign of something that will happen in the future. His sudden death had been foreshadowed by earlier health scares. These measures were foreshadowed in last year’s Health Committee report.
