[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

foretell \foretell"\, v. t. imp.  p. p. foretold; p. pr. 
   vb. n. foretelling.
   to predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to
   foreshow.
   1913 webster

         deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. --pope.
   1913 webster

         prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster
         of his character.                        --c.
                                                  middleton.

   syn: to predict; prophesy; prognosticate; augur.
        1913 webster
see also:
foretold foretelling 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

foretell \foretell"\, v. i.
   to utter predictions. --acts iii. 24.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

foretell
     v 1: foreshadow or presage syn: announce, annunciate, harbinger,
           herald
     2: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "call the outcome
        of an election" syn: predict, prognosticate, call,
        forebode, anticipate, promise
     3: indicate by signs; "these signs bode bad news" syn: bode,
         portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage,
         betoken, foreshadow, augur, prefigure, forecast,
         predict
     also: foretold
see also:
announce annunciate harbinger herald predict prognosticate 
call forebode anticipate promise bode 
portend auspicate omen presage betoken 
foreshadow augur prefigure forecast foretold 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

70 moby thesaurus words for "foretell":
   adumbrate, announce, anticipate, apprehend, approach, augur, await,
   be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, bode,
   call, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, come, come on, declare,
   disclose, divine, divulge, dope, dope out, dowse for water,
   draw near, draw on, expect, forebode, forecast, foreknow, foresee,
   foreshadow, foreshow, foretoken, forewarn, fortune-tell, guess,
   hariolate, hope, lie ahead, look for, look forward to, loom,
   make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, near, plan,
   plot, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, proclaim,
   prognosticate, project, promise, prophesy, read palms,
   read tea leaves, read the future, reveal, soothsay, speculate,
   tell fortunes, tell the future, threaten, vaticinate, warn

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