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foreguessing

foreguessing is the present participle and gerund of foreguess.

Meaning of foreguess

Verb

foreguess (third-person singular simple present foreguesses, present participle foreguessing, simple past and past participle foreguessed)

  1. (transitive) To guess beforehand.
    • The rest—Rannach and Tekah, Yazte and Kahteney, Arcole—waited on him, on his response. He was, no matter his protestations, the Prophet, and they hesitated to foreguess him.1996, Angus Wells, Exile's Challenge
  2. (transitive) To forecast.
  3. (transitive) To anticipate; expect.
  4. (transitive) To conjecture; assume.
    • " [...] He will be welcome there I foreguess; for every northman is either or Warwick or for Lancaster; and the two must unite now, I trow."1886, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, The Last of the barons

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Questions about foreguessing

What is foreguessing the present participle and gerund of?
Foreguessing is the present participle and gerund of foreguess.

Words near foreguessing in the dictionary

  1. foreguard
  2. foreguards
  3. foreguess
  4. foreguessed
  5. foreguesses
  6. foreguessing
  7. foreguide
  8. foregut
  9. foreguts
  10. forehall
  11. forehalls

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