Verb
foresee (third-person singular simple present foresees, present participle foreseeing, simple past foresaw, past participle foreseen)
- To be able to see beforehand: to anticipate; predict.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 8: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.
- (obsolete) To provide.
1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Vicissitude of Things”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.
Translations
to anticipate
- Afrikaans: voorsien (af)
- Arabic: تَوَقَّعَ (tawaqqaʕa)
- Armenian: կանխատեսել (hy) (kanxatesel)
- Aromanian: prived, pruved
- Bulgarian: предвиждам (bg) (predviždam), предугаждам (predugaždam)
- Catalan: preveure (ca), pronosticar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 預知/预知 (zh) (yùzhī), 預見/预见 (zh) (yùjiàn)
- Czech: předvídat (cs)
- Danish: forudse (da)
- Dutch: voorzien (nl)
- Esperanto: antaŭvidi
- Finnish: aavistaa (fi), nähdä ennalta, ennustaa (fi)
- French: prévoir (fr), anticiper (fr)
- Galician: prever (gl)
- German: vorhersehen (de), voraussehen (de)
- Hebrew: לצפות
- Hungarian: előre lát (hu)
- Icelandic: sjá fyrir
- Indonesian: memperkirakan (id)
- Italian: prevedere (it)
- Japanese: 予見する (ja) (よけんする, yoken suru), 予測する (ja) (よそくする, yosoku suru), 見越す (ja) (みこす, mikosu), 予知する (ja) (よちする, yochi suru)
- Latin: dīvīnō, praevideō, prōvideō, prospicio
- Latvian: paredzēt (lv)
- Macedonian: предви́дува (predvíduva)
- Maori: matakite, matapae
- Norwegian: forutse (no)
- Polish: przewidywać (pl)
- Portuguese: prever (pt), prognosticar (pt)
- Quechua: t'ituy
- Romanian: prevedea (ro), anticipa (ro)
- Russian: предви́деть (ru) impf (predvídetʹ), предвосхища́ть (ru) impf (predvosxiščátʹ), предвосхи́тить (ru) pf (predvosxítitʹ), предска́зывать (ru) impf (predskázyvatʹ), предсказа́ть (ru) pf (predskazátʹ), предусма́тривать (ru) impf (predusmátrivatʹ), предусмотре́ть (ru) pf (predusmotrétʹ)
- Slovak: Predvídať
- Slovene: predvidevati, predvideti pf, slutiti
- Spanish: pronosticar (es), prever (es), antever (es)
- Swedish: förutse (sv)
- Turkish: öngörmek (tr)
- Volapük: büologön (vo)
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