Synonyms for bode
boʊdbode

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1. bode

   "Persons or things augur; persons only forebode or presage; things only betoken or portend." Crabb English Synonymes. We augur well for a voyage from past good fortune and a good start; we presage success from the stanchness of the ship and the skill of the captain. We forebode misfortune either from circumstances that betoken failure, or from gloomy fancies for which we could not give a reason. Dissipation among the officers and mutiny among the crew portend disaster. Divine has reference to the ancient soothsayers' arts (as in Gen. xliv, 5, 15), and refers rather to reading hearts than to reading the future. We say I could not divine his motive, or his intention.

   Synonyms:
   augur, betoken, divine, forebode, foretell, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy

   Antonyms:
   assure, calculate, demonstrate, determine, establish, insure, make sure, prove, settle, warrant

   Preposition:
   I augur from all circumstances a prosperous result; I augur ill of the enterprise; "augurs ill to the rights of the people," Thomas Jefferson Writings vol. ii, p. 506. [Taylor, Walton & Maberley '53.] I augur well, or this augurs well, for your cause.

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1. bode

   Synonyms:
   foretell, betoken, foreshadow, presage, predict, prophesy, promise, forebode, herald, announce, prognosticate, portend, augur

   Antonyms:
   relate, record, narrate, remember

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1. bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predictverb

   indicate by signs

   "These signs bode bad news"

   Synonyms:
   predict, herald, bespeak, indicate, promise, figure, betoken, announce, count on, annunciate, foreshadow, omen, point, harbinger, estimate, portend, call, prognosticate, anticipate, reckon, augur, calculate, foretell, forebode, prefigure, signal, forecast, auspicate, presage

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1. bodeverb

   Synonyms:
   betoken, portend, foreshow, foreshadow, presage, augur, foretell, predict, forebode, prophesy, be ominous of

2. bodeverb

   Synonyms:
   forebode, presage

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1. bodeverb

   Synonyms:
   forebode, foreshadow, augur, presage, betoken, portend

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1. List of paraphrases for "bode":

   augur, budi

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1. John McBride:

   A good testimony to the fitness levels of alpine ski racers is that over history guys like Bode Miller have won the Superstars contest against greats in NBA and NFL and the Olympics and other sports.

2. Mike Cramer:

   It doesn't bode well for that newspaper continuing. In fact, if they continue and gut the sports department ... I'm not sure why one would bother to buy it at the newsstand or as a business.

3. Lara Blecher:

   It doesn't bode well if we as investors don't have accurate information on which to act.

4. Corey Johnson:

   It doesn’t bode well.

5. Peter Cardillo:

   It’s an abbreviated session and volume is light, so the only conclusion is that the rally is not faltering for now, it does bode well for next month.