Usually means: Indicate a future event; foretell.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. portend: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. portend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. portend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. portend: Collins English Dictionary
  5. portend: Vocabulary.com
  6. Portend, portend: Wordnik
  7. portend: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. portend: Wiktionary
  9. portend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. portend: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. portend: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Portend, portend: Dictionary.com
  13. portend: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. portend: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Portend: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. portend: Rhymezone
  17. Portend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. portend: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. portend: Free Dictionary
  20. portend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. portend: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. portend: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. portend: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. portend: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. portend: A Word A Day

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verb:  (transitive) To serve as a warning or omen of.
verb:  (transitive) To signify; to denote.

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