foreshadow

From fore- +‎ shadow.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fɔːˈʃadəʊ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɔːɹˈʃædoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ædəʊ

foreshadow (third-person singular simple present foreshadows, present participle foreshadowing, simple past and past participle foreshadowed)

1. (transitive) To presage, or suggest something in advance. [from 16th c.]
   • 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 84:

     It all sounds to us remarkably nineteenth-century; Petrarch's romantic sentiments foreshadow with uncanny precision those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Alfred de Musset.