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foreshadow in Dutch

foreshadow in Dutch is beduiden — foreshadow means to hint at someone or something before they appear or happen.

foreshadow in Dutch

beduiden
verb
(transitive) To presage, or suggest something in advance. [from 16th c.]

What does "foreshadow" mean?

  1. verb To hint at someone or something before they appear or happen.
    "It all sounds to us remarkably nineteenth-century; Petrarch's romantic sentiments foreshadow with uncanny precision those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Alfred de Musset."
  2. verb If a person does this, they get a feeling that something is going to happen.
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foreshadow in a sentence

  • It all sounds to us remarkably nineteenth-century; Petrarch's romantic sentiments foreshadow with uncanny precision those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Alfred de Musset.
  • If there is a significant or surprising event in the story, it must be foreshadowed earlier on. When the event that was foreshadowed occurs, that's the payoff.

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What is "foreshadow" in Dutch?
"foreshadow" in Dutch is beduiden. foreshadow means: To hint at someone or something before they appear or happen.
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