bode
/boʊd/ verb C2- Of a thing: to be an indication, omen, or sign of (something); to portend.
- Often followed by ill or well: of a thing: to be an indication, omen, or sign of something.
Plural bode · He/she/it bodes · Past boded · Past participle boded · -ing form boding
Verb forms
- Base form
- bode
- He/she/it
- bodes
- Past
- boded
- Past participle
- boded
- -ing form
- boding
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The Owl next advised them to pluck up the seed of the flax, which men had sown, as it was a plant which boded no good to them.
I knew not what wild beast we were about to hunt down in the dark jungle of criminal London, but I was well assured, from the bearing of this master huntsman, that the adventure was a most grave one—while the sardonic smile which occasionally broke through his ascetic gloom boded little good for the object of our quest.
I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.
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