Crossword-Solution: PORTEND
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Portend | v. t. | To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. |
| Portend | v. t. | To stretch out before. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PORTEND | anagram | DROPNET |
We have 23 clues for the answer “PORTEND”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Lively and impertinant | 1 answer |
| Left at sea, aim to make forecast | 1 answer |
| Be an ominous sign of | 1 answer |
| Be an indicator of | 1 answer |
| Act as a warning of | 1 answer |
| Fortell | 2 answers |
| indicate in advance | 2 answers |
| Augur | 7 answers |
| Foreshow. | 9 answers |
| BE AN OMEN OF | 12 answers |
| prefigure | 12 answers |
| Bode | 16 answers |
| Prognosticate | 18 answers |
| forebode | 22 answers |
| betoken | 24 answers |
| Fore-shadow | 25 answers |
| predict | 31 answers |
| foretell | 31 answers |
| forewarn | 32 answers |
| Threaten | 37 answers |
| Presage | 48 answers |
| foretoken | 63 answers |
| Herald | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PORTEND (5)
Instantly I sprang toward it to wrench it open again, for something in the uncanny movement of the thing and the tense and almost palpable silence of the chamber seemed to portend a lurking evil lying hidden in this rock-bound chamber within the bowels of the Golden Cliffs.
His reactions to the effects of the temperature humidity index did not portend a good meeting with Bob Burnson.
The knights heard this uncommon document read from end to end, and then gazed upon each other in silent amazement, as being utterly at a loss to know what it could portend.
What did all this portend, and what portended the swift hoisting-up of Monsieur Gabelle behind a servant on horseback, and the conveying away of the said Gabelle (double-laden though the horse was), at a gallop, like a new version of the German ballad of Leonora? It portended that there was one stone face too many, up at the chateau.
See Bid.] To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
Quotes with PORTEND (3)
From Orient Point The art of living isn't hard to muster: Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend. When someone makes you promises, don't trust herunless they're in the here and now, and just herwilling largesse free-handed to a friend. The art of living isn't hard to muster: groom the old dog, her coat gets back its luster; take brisk walks so you're hungry at the end. When someone makes you promises, don't trust herto know she can afford what they will cost herto keep unt…
It matters, because everything we say Of the past is description without place, a cast Of the imagination, made in sound; And because what we say of the future must portend, Be alive with its own seemings, seeming to be Like rubies reddened by rubies reddening.
Suppose that members of a religious movement, such as Christianity, maintain that the existence of some powerful god and its goals or laws can be known through their scriptures, their prophets, or some special revelation. Suppose further that the evidence that is available to support the reliability of those scriptures, prophets, or special revelations is weaker than that God is hypothetically capable of producing. That is, suppose that Christians maintain that Jesus was resu…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1969–2024).