bode

  1. Verb.  To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
  2. Verb.  (intransitive) To foreshow something; to augur.
  3. Noun.  An omen; a foreshadowing.
  4. Noun.  A bid; an offer. A messenger; a herald.
  5. Noun.  A stop; a halting; delay.
  6. Verb.  (simple past of, bide) .

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