What does foresee mean?
Foresee means To perceive (a situation or event) in advance..
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/fɔɹˈsi/ · verb
To perceive (a situation or event) in advance..
A prudent man foreſeeth the euill, and hideth himſelfe: but the ſimple paſſe on, and are puniſhed.
Ariel. My Maſter through his Art foreſees the danger That you (his friend) are in, and ſends me forth (For elſe his proiect dies) to keepe them liuing.
"I foresee in this," he says, "the breaking up of our profession."
One might imagine that the directors foresaw the somewhat uninspiring appearance of the future Manchester stations, and decided to start as it was intended to go on.
"If you foresee the event and you go forward, then you are criminally negligent," she said, adding, "This was a boat that navigated on the waters of Lake George since 1979. In terms of criminal negligence, there clearly wasn't the foreseeability that there may be in civil negligence."
Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.
Use foresee when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Foresee means To perceive (a situation or event) in advance..
Common synonyms include anticipate, predict, think, forestall.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A prudent man foreſeeth the euill, and hideth himſelfe: but the ſimple paſſe on, and are puniſhed.
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