Foretell

v. t.	1.	To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow. [imp. & p. p. Foretold ; p. pr. & vb. n. Foretelling.] Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. - Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. - C. Middleton.
v. i.	1.	To utter predictions.

Verb	1.	foretell - foreshadow or presage Synonyms: annunciate, harbinger, herald, announce
	2.	foretell - make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" Synonyms: forebode, predict, prognosticate, promise, anticipate, call
	3.	foretell - indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" Synonyms: augur, auspicate, bode, foreshadow, omen, portend, presage, prognosticate, predict, prefigure, betoken, forecast

adumbrate, announce, anticipate, apprehend, approach, augur, await, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, bode, call, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, come, come on, declare, disclose, divulge, dope, dope out, dowse for water, draw near, draw on, expect, forebode, forecast, foreknow, foresee, foreshadow, foreshow, foretoken, forewarn, fortune-tell, guess, hariolate, hope, lie ahead, look for, look forward to, loom, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, near, plan, plot, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, proclaim, prognosticate, project, promise, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, reveal, speculate, tell fortunes, tell the future, threaten, vaticinate, warn

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