prefigure
- v imagine or consider beforehand
It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured - v indicate by signs
- Do they prefigure Rothko's suicide in 1970? We don't know.
- Similarly, the current death throes of the housing market may prefigure an eventual rebirth, but in the meantime, falling prices and rising foreclosures are still wreaking havoc .
- Paintings like this one of him in his shop often made use of a woodworking context to prefigure the nailing of Christ to the Cross at the Crucifixion.