foresee

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA ^(key): /fɔrˈsi/
• (UK) IPA ^(key): /fɔːˈsiː/

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• Hyphenation: fore‧see

Verb

Plain form foresee

Third-person singular foresees

Past tense foresaw

Past participle foreseen

Present participle foreseeing

1. (transitive) If a person can foresee something, then that means the person knows that the object will come to take place before it actually does.

Related words

• foreseer
• foreseeable
• foreseeably
• foresight