foreboding

foreboding
noun
Vorahnung, die; (unease caused by premonition) ungutes Gefühl
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[fo:'boudiŋ]
noun
(a feeling that something bad is going to happen: He has a strange foreboding that he will die young.) die Ahnung
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fore·bod·ing
[fɔ:ʳˈbəʊdɪŋ, AM fɔ:rˈboʊd-]
I. n (liter)
1. no pl (anticipation) [düstere] Vorahnung
there was a sense of \foreboding in the capital as if fighting might at any minute break out es hing eine düstere Vorahnung über der Hauptstadt, so als könnte jede Minute ein Kampf losbrechen
2. (presentiment) [düstere] Prophezeiung
to have a \foreboding [that] ... das [ungute] Gefühl haben, [dass] ...
II. adj Unheil verkündend
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[fɔː'bəʊdɪŋ]
1. n
(= presentiment) (Vor)ahnung f, Vorgefühl nt; (= feeling of disquiet) ungutes Gefühl
2. adj
look Unheil verkündend
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foreboding s
1. Prophezeiung f
2. (böse) (Vor)Ahnung
3. (böses) Vorzeichen oder Omen
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noun
Vorahnung, die; (unease caused by premonition) ungutes Gefühl
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n.
Vorahnung f.

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