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Foresee vs Forbode - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between foresee and forbode

is that foresee is to anticipate; to predict while forbode is form of forbid|lang=en.

As a noun forbode is

a forbidding, prohibition.

foresee

English

Verb

  • To anticipate; to predict.
  • * 1838 , Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter
    • "I foresee in this," he says, "the breaking up of our profession."
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxii. 3
    • A prudent man foreseeth the evil.
  • (obsolete) To provide.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.

    See also

    * forsee English irregular verbs

    forbode

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) forbode, forbod, from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A forbidding, prohibition.
  • A command forbidding a thing.
    • God's/The Lord's forbode

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Verb

    (head)
  • .

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) foreboden, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * forebode (much more commonly used)

    Verb

    (forbod)
  • To portend or foretell, especially of ill; to serve as a sign or ill omen.
    • The dark clouds forbode of fierce storms.
    Synonyms
    * (to portend or foretell) foretell, portend, predict