portend
pawr tend
- v indicate by signs
- But his resignation may nonetheless portend the collapse of the unity government, and the onset of a full-blown Palestinian civil war.
- Failure could portend an increasingly fragile future.
- Did Crouching Tiger's popularity portend a huge global market for Asian movies, or was it a fluke? That uncertaintyand Hero's $30 million budgethas piled pressure on everyone .