Foreshadows

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To signal or imply something that will occur later on To provide an advance suggestion about future happenings To give an early clue or warning regarding subsequent events
2. Acts as a sign or indication of events that will happen later
3. Serves to hint or preview what is to come in the future

Etymology: "Foreshadows" is the third-person singular present form of the verb "foreshadow," which is built from "fore-," meaning before in time, and "shadow," in its older sense of to shade or darken. To foreshadow something is, literally, to cast its shadow ahead of it.

Synonyms: predicts, indicates, prefigures, heralds, signals

Antonyms: obscures, conceals, hides