Definitions for portend

portend por·tend

Spelling: [pawr-tend, pohr-]
IPA: /pɔrˈtɛnd, poʊr-/

Portend is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 226 anagrams from letters in portend (denoprt).

Definitions for portend

verb (used with object)

  1. to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does:
  2. to signify; mean.

Origin of portend

1400-50; late Middle English Latin portendere to point out, indicate, portend, variant of prōtendere to extend. See pro-1, tend

Examples for portend

Well, the polls have started to come, and they portend total disaster.

The even bigger question, of course, is whether unity will portend not peace but war?

What did it portend that Mrs. Stannard should have cut Mr. Gleason dead?

It was one of those mornings in summer which portend a thunderstorm and great heat.

A look at the most bizarre metrics used to portend the winner of the presidential election.

What could it portend but that the effects of the poison were passing off and that she was recovering?

Could the retirement of Rep. Tom Latham, a close friend, portend the exit of Speaker John Boehner as well?

A plan was devised to find out what this extravagance of candle might portend.

Strangers in Gallery rubbed their eyes and asked what this might portend?

Atlee watched her, by no means certain what her gesture might portend.

Word Value for portend
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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