presage
pre sij
- n a foreboding about what is about to happen
- n a sign of something about to happen
- v indicate by signs
- Economic indicators presage more gloom, with electricity production for industry falling 4% in October, the first time it has declined in a decade.
- What happens in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, could presage the direction other Islamic societies take.
- Don't count on that happening forever--today's jitters do probably presage something worse.