misgive

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   of one's mind or heart: to fill one with doubt, apprehension, or foreboding

   My mind misgives me that the apparently simple plan will end badly.

From Middle English misgiven, formed from mis- and give. In the surviving literary construction 'my heart or mind misgives me,' give carries an older sense of suggesting or prompting a fearful expectation.

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