portends
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of portend
• dropnets, protends
Source: Wiktionary
Por*tend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Portended; p. pr. & vb. n. Portending.] Etym: [L. portendre, portentum, to foretell, to predict, to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to stretch. See Position, Tend.]
1. To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay.
2. To stretch out before. [R.] "Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel." Pope.
Syn.
– To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur; presage; foreshadow; threaten.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 April 2025
(noun) fertilization of a second ovum after a pregnancy has begun; results in two fetuses of different ages in the uterus at the same time; “superfetation is normal in some animal species”
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