Foresee
11foresee — v. 1) (K) nobody could foresee his running away 2) (L) he foresaw that prices would drop 3) (Q) who can foresee what should be done? * * * [fɔː siː] (K) nobody could foresee his running away (L) he foresaw that prices would drop (Q) who can… …
12foresee — transitive verb (foresaw; foreseen; seeing) Date: before 12th century to see (as a development) beforehand • foreseer noun Synonyms: foresee, foreknow, divine, anticipate mean to know beforehand. foresee implies nothing about how the knowledge is …
13foresee — fore|see [fo:ˈsi: US fo:r ] v past tense foresaw [ ˈso: US ˈso:] past participle foreseen [ ˈsi:n] [T] to think or know that something is going to happen in the future →↑predict ▪ I ve put your name on the list and I don t foresee any problems. ▪ …
14foresee — [[t]fɔː(r)si͟ː[/t]] foresees, foreseeing, foresaw, foreseen VERB If you foresee something, you expect and believe that it will happen. [V n] He did not foresee any problems. [V n] ...a dangerous situation which could have been foreseen …
15foresee — UK [fɔː(r)ˈsiː] / US [fɔrˈsɪ] verb [transitive] Word forms foresee : present tense I/you/we/they foresee he/she/it foresees present participle foreseeing past tense foresaw UK [fɔː(r)ˈsɔː] / US [fɔrˈsɔ] past participle foreseen UK [fɔː(r)ˈsiːn] / …
16foresee — verb To anticipate; to predict. I foresee in this, he says, the breaking up of our profession. The Lamplighter Charles Dickens, 1838 …
17foresee — verb I foresee much good fortune in your future Syn: anticipate, predict, forecast, expect, envisage, envision, see; foretell, prophesy, prognosticate; literary foreknow …
18foresee the future — index prognosticate Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
19foresee past tense foresaw — past participle foreseen / si:n/ verb (T) to know that something is going to happen before it actually happens: The method was used in ways that could not have been foreseen by its inventors. | foresee that: Few analysts foresaw that oil prices… …
20foresee — foreseeable, adj. foreseeability, n. foreseer, n. /fawr see , fohr /, v., foresaw, foreseen, foreseeing. v.t. 1. to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow. 2. to see beforehand. v.i. 3. to exercise foresight. [bef. 900; ME; OE foreseon …
