Usually means: Anticipated or predicted something beforehand.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word foresaw:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. foresaw: Merriam-Webster
  2. foresaw: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. foresaw: Collins English Dictionary
  4. foresaw: Vocabulary.com
  5. Foresaw, foresaw: Wordnik
  6. foresaw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. foresaw: Wiktionary
  8. foresaw: Dictionary.com
  9. foresaw: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. foresaw: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. foresaw: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. foresaw: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. foresaw: Legal dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  To perceive (a situation or event) in advance.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To provide.
▸ Also see foresee

Types:
predicted, premonition, prophecy, augury, divination, soothsaying, portent, more...

Adjectives:
few, first, criminal, little, old, indifferent, sure

Colors:
    emerald,     sage,     olive,     forest green,     jade, more...



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Types:
predicted, premonition, prophecy, augury, divination, soothsaying, portent, more...

Adjectives:
few, first, criminal, little, old, indifferent, sure

Colors:
    emerald,     sage,     olive,     forest green,     jade, more...




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