forerun
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To precede; to forecast or foreshadow.
Example Sentences
- "Bailey still sat, doubled over his book […] A finger forerunning his eyes along the page."
- "These signs forerun the death or fall of kings."
- "And in herself she moan’d, ‘Too late, too late!’ / Till in the cold wind that foreruns the morn, / A blot in heaven, the Raven, flying high, / Croak’d, […]"
- "Discontent foreran the Two Mutinies, and more or less it lurkingly survived them."