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/ˈbəʊdɪŋ/
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/ˈboʊdɪŋ/
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- General-American
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ˈbəʊdɪŋ
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ˈboʊdɪŋ
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- US
Adjective
foreboding, ominous, portending.
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[E]very sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination: the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hill side; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; […]
Noun
a feeling of evil to come
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a steadily escalating sense of foreboding
the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case