portend (por-TEND) verb tr.
1. To serve as an omen or a warning of; presage.
2. To indicate by prediction; forecast.
[Middle English portenden, from Latin portendere.]
"The film's greatest problem is the assumption that the
millennium portends
extraordinary events."
James Murray, Happy New Apocalypse, The Australian, 16 Dec
1999.
This week's theme: verbs.
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The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form
of belief.
-Frank Barron
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