Usually means: Indicates the likelihood of something.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. portends: Merriam-Webster
  2. portends: Collins English Dictionary
  3. portends: Vocabulary.com
  4. Portends, portends: Wordnik
  5. portends: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. portends: Wiktionary
  7. portends: Dictionary.com
  8. portends: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. portends: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. portends: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (portend)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To serve as a warning or omen of.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To signify; to denote.
▸ Also see portend


Opposite:
bodes well



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Opposite:
bodes well




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