Usually means: Indicates something will happen; foretells.
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  1. bodes: Merriam-Webster
  2. bodes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bodes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Bode's, Bodes, Bodes, bodes: Wordnik
  5. bodes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. bodes: Wiktionary
  7. bodes: Dictionary.com
  8. bodes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. bodes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. bodes: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Bode)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell.
verb:  (intransitive, followed by "well", "ill", "no good", etc.) To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future.
noun:  An omen; a foreshadowing.
noun:  (obsolete or dialect) A bid; an offer.
noun:  A herald; a messenger.
noun:  A stop; a halting; delay.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A male given name.
noun:  A city in Iowa
noun:  A village in Nepal
noun:  A river in Germany, a tributary to the Saale
noun:  A small river and tributary to the Wipper
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