Usually means: Predicts or indicates something negative.
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  1. forbodes: Merriam-Webster
  2. forbodes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. forbodes: Wordnik
  4. forbodes: Wiktionary

(Note: See forebode as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (forebode)

verb:  To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
verb:  To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
noun:  (obsolete) prognostication; presage
▸ Also see forebode





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