bode

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to be an omen of a particular outcome

   The sudden silence did not bode well for the negotiations.

From Old English bodian ('to announce, proclaim, foretell'), from boda ('messenger'), from Proto-Germanic *budô, related to bēodan ('to command, offer'), from Proto-Indo-European *bheudh- ('to be aware, make aware').

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