| Main Entry: | adumbrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | foreshadow |
Synonyms: |
augur, bode, cloud, darken, foretell, indicate, intimate, mist, obfuscate, obscure, outline, portend, sketch, suggest |
| Main Entry: | augur |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict; be an omen of |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, bespeak, bode, call it, call the shots, crystal-ball, figure out, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, harbinger, have a hunch, herald, portend, presage, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, psych out, read, signify, soothsay |
| Notes: | an auger is a tool and to augur is to foretell or betoken |
| Main Entry: | call |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | estimate, consider |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, approximate, augur, forecast, foretell, guess, judge, make rough guess, place, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, put, reckon, regard, think, vaticinate |
Antonyms: |
ignore |
| Main Entry: | cloud |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become foggy or obscured |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, becloud, befog, blur, darken, dim, eclipse, envelop, fog, gloom, mist, obfuscate, overcast, overshadow, shade, shadow, veil |
Antonyms: |
clear, unfog, unveil |
| Main Entry: | draft |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | formulate |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, block out, characterize, compose, concoct, contrive, delineate, design, devise, draw, draw up, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, invent, make, manufacture, outline, plan, prepare, project, rough, shape, skeleton, sketch |
| Main Entry: | eclipse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | obscure, veil |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, becloud, bedim, blot out, cloud, darken, dim, extinguish, murk, overshadow, shadow, shroud |
Antonyms: |
clear, explain, lay out |
| Main Entry: | forecast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, guess |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, anticipate, augur, calculate, call the turn, conclude, conjecture, demonstrate, determine, divine, dope out, estimate, figure, figure out*, foresee, foretell, gather, gauge, in the cards, infer, plan, portend, predetermine, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, reason, see it coming, soothsay, surmise, telegraph |
| Main Entry: | foreshadow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | indicate |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, augur, be in the wind, betoken, bode, forebode, foretell, hint, imply, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, promise, prophesy, shadow, signal, suggest, telegraph |
| Main Entry: | foretell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, warn |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, announce, anticipate, apprehend, augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, call, call it, call the shot, crystal ball it, declare, disclose, divine, divulge, dope out, dope*, figure, figure out*, forebode, forecast, foreknow, foreshadow, forewarn, make book, portend, prefigure, presage, proclaim, prognosticate, prophesy, psych, read, reveal, see something coming, signify, soothsay, tell |
| Main Entry: | hide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceal; remain unseen |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, blot out, bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, cover, curtain, disguise, dissemble, ditch, duck, eclipse, ensconce, go into hiding, go underground, harbor, hold back, hole up, hush up, keep from, keep secret, lie low, lock up, mask, not give away, not tell, obscure, plant, protect, put out of the way, reserve, salt away, screen, secrete, shadow, shelter, shield, shroud, smuggle, squirrel, stash, stifle, stow away, suppress, take cover, tuck away, veil, withhold |
Antonyms: |
bare, disclose, divulge, exhibit, expose, lay bare, let out, open, reveal, show, tell, uncover, unmask |