verb (used with object), fore·bod·ed, fore·bod·ing. to foretell or predict; be an omen of; indicate beforehand; portend: clouds that forebode a storm.

Is Forbode a word?

Forbode meaning

To portend or foretell, especially of ill; to serve as a sign or ill omen. The dark clouds forbode of fierce storms.

What do forebodes mean?

transitive verb. 1 : to have an inward conviction of (something, such as a coming ill or misfortune) … she looked eagerly in his face, not quick to forebode evil, but unavoidably conscious that the state of the family had changed …— Nathaniel Hawthorne. 2 : foretell, portend Such dark clouds forebode a storm.