betoken
- v be a signal for or a symptom of
- v indicate by signs
- This may betoken the decline of Protestantism, or it may be a kind of built-in unity movement on the grass-roots level.
- Outside, several laborers were repairing the street, among them a tall, dignified old man of 75 named Lawrence Smith, whose white mane and long white mustache seemed to betoken .
- Tracking shots, twisting boom shots, placements that are either radically high or low they all betoken a director who doesn't trust his material.