Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to foreshow
Participle: foreshowed
Gerund: foreshowing
Indicative
Present
| I | foreshow |
| you | foreshow |
| he;she;it | foreshows |
| we | foreshow |
| you | foreshow |
| they | foreshow |
Perfect
| I | have foreshowed |
| you | have foreshowed |
| he;she;it | has foreshowed |
| we | have foreshowed |
| you | have foreshowed |
| they | have foreshowed |
Past
| I | foreshowed |
| you | foreshowed |
| he;she;it | foreshowed |
| we | foreshowed |
| you | foreshowed |
| they | foreshowed |
Pluperfect
| I | had foreshowed |
| you | had foreshowed |
| he;she;it | had foreshowed |
| we | had foreshowed |
| you | had foreshowed |
| they | had foreshowed |
Future
| I | will foreshow |
| you | will foreshow |
| he;she;it | will foreshow |
| we | will foreshow |
| you | will foreshow |
| they | will foreshow |
Future Perfect
| I | will have foreshowed |
| you | will have foreshowed |
| he;she;it | will have foreshowed |
| we | will have foreshowed |
| you | will have foreshowed |
| they | will have foreshowed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | foreshow |
| you | foreshow |
| he;she;it | foreshow |
| we | foreshow |
| you | foreshow |
| they | foreshow |
Perfect
| I | have foreshowed |
| you | have foreshowed |
| he;she;it | have foreshowed |
| we | have foreshowed |
| you | have foreshowed |
| they | have foreshowed |
Imperfect
| I | foreshowed |
| you | foreshowed |
| he;she;it | foreshowed |
| we | foreshowed |
| you | foreshowed |
| they | foreshowed |
Pluperfect
| I | had foreshowed |
| you | had foreshowed |
| he;she;it | had foreshowed |
| we | had foreshowed |
| you | had foreshowed |
| they | had foreshowed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would foreshow |
| you | would foreshow |
| he;she;it | would foreshow |
| we | would foreshow |
| you | would foreshow |
| they | would foreshow |
Perfect
| I | would have foreshowed |
| you | would have foreshowed |
| he;she;it | would have foreshowed |
| we | would have foreshowed |
| you | would have foreshowed |
| they | would have foreshowed |
Imperative
| you | foreshow |
| we | Let's foreshow |
| you | foreshow |
Verbs conjugated like 'foreshow'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'foreshow'
foreshew,
foreslow,
fore-slow,
foreflow,
forehew,
foreknow,
foreshadow,
foreshoot,
forhow,
forslow,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English foreschewen, from Old English forescēawian (“to foreshow, foresee; preordain, decree, appoint; provide, furnish with”), equivalent to fore- + show. Cognate with Dutch voorschouwen, German vorschauen. See: Dutch '
voorschouwen', German, old spelling '
vorschauen'.
Sample Sentences
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Amid his senses' giddy wheel, / Did he not desperate impulse feel, / Headlong to plunge himself below, / And meet the worst his fears foreshow?— […] [1810, Walter Scott, “Canto II. The Island.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XXXI, pages 85–86:]
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What could the soothsayer foreshow that we knew not before? The future is written in the past; and if we prophesy, it is with eyes that look behind. [1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 314:]
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But if the rays break forth out of the middle, or dispersed, and its exterior body, or the out parts of it, be covered with clouds, it foreshows great tempests both of wind and rain. [1841, Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu, The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England:]