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foreboding

/fawr-boh-ding, fohr-/US // fɔrˈboʊ dɪŋ, foʊr- //UK // (fɔːˈbəʊdɪŋ) //

畏惧,忧虑,畏惧感,畏惧心理

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a prediction; portent.
    • : a strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil, etc.; presentiment.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : that forebodes, especially evil.

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Examples

  • I ordered two of these soft Vera Bradley cotton masks solely as mood boosters to combat the bleakness of late-fall weather and the foreboding winter that’s forecast, but they’ve quickly proved ideal for my runs.

  • The duo, who form There Is Studio and specialize in combining typography and photo illustration, created an eerie, foreboding sense of isolation with a frosted window outside their east London home.

  • Samson paints a dark and foreboding future of social unrest, unemployment and widespread criminality in Kitwe if there isn’t a new allocation.

  • Season six is big on the sense of foreboding doom, and it doesn’t always do it well — but here it’s still fresh enough to be unsettling and effective.

  • Those turned off by the foreboding -packaging may turn to more holistic sleep-wellness methods.

  • The sense of foreboding mounted by the day as IS fighters surrounded the Sinjar district on three sides.

  • There was one foreboding clue as to what was to come for the house members.

  • Plus the moors where she lives—all cascading waterfalls and glowing fairies and foreboding thorns—are rather lovely to look at it.

  • And their deaths have heightened the tensions and the sense of foreboding that something bigger and more brutal may happen soon.

  • On August 15, 1982, Mary appeared with a foreboding message.

  • He remembered standing once before on this very spot, that foreboding of coming loneliness so strangely in his heart.

  • She waited for no further formalities, but shaken with the sure foreboding of calamity, turned and fled the room.

  • A horrible foreboding gripped me, and I quickly knelt down and raised the dog's head.

  • Raoul, with pessimistic foreboding, was convinced that there were only girls next door.

  • The air seemed full of foreboding; everything seemed to tell him of calamity.