Portend

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay.

2. To stretch out before. [R.] "Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel." Pope.

Synonyms: foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur; presage; foreshadow; threaten.