To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet LetterThere can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart.
To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
TennysonHis heart forebodes a mystery.
MiddletonSullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death.
