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Definition of forbode in English English dictionary
- A forbidding, prohibition
- Obsolete simple past tense of forbid
- A command forbidding a thing
God's/The Lord's forbode.
- To portend or foretell, especially of ill; to serve as a sign or ill omen
The dark clouds forbode of fierce storms.
- forboding
- Present participle of forbode
- forboding
- Serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty
The child walked nervously down the dark, foreboding street.
- forboding
- present participle of forebode
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Etymology
() From Middle English forbode, forbod, from Old English forbod (“a forbidding, prohibition”), from Proto-Germanic *fur-budan (“prohibition”), from Proto-Indo-European *bheudh- (“to be awake, fully perceive”). Cognate with Dutch verbod, German Verbot, Danish forbud, Swedish förbud. More at forbid.Resimler
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