All forerun synonyms

verb forerun

• precede — to go before, as in place, order, rank, importance, or time.
• predict — to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
• indicate — to be a sign of; betoken; evidence; show: His hesitation really indicates his doubt about the venture.
• signal — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
• foreshadow — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
• anticipate — If you anticipate an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it.
• foresee — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
• stand — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
• harbinger — a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
• signify — to make known by signs, speech, or action.
• forecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
• herald — (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
• forebode — to foretell or predict; be an omen of; indicate beforehand; portend: clouds that forebode a storm.
• foretell — to tell of beforehand; predict; prophesy.
• augur — If something augurs well or badly for a person or a future situation, it is a sign that things will go well or badly.
• portend — to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does: The street incident may portend a general uprising.
• presage — a presentiment or foreboding.
• foreshow — to show beforehand.
• predate — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
• pace — a rate of movement, especially in stepping, walking, etc.: to walk at a brisk pace of five miles an hour.
• accelerate — If the process or rate of something accelerates or if something accelerates it, it gets faster and faster.
• precede — to go before, as in place, order, rank, importance, or time.
• antecede — to go before, as in time, order, etc; precede
• backdate — If a document or an arrangement is backdated, it is valid from a date before the date when it is completed or signed.
• misdate — to assign or affix a wrong date to.
• publicize — to give publicity to; bring to public notice; advertise: They publicized the meeting as best they could.
• tout — to solicit business, employment, votes, or the like, importunately.
• ballyhoo — You can use ballyhoo to refer to great excitement or anger about something, especially when you disapprove of it because you think it is unnecessary or exaggerated.
• show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
• trumpet — Music. any of a family of brass wind instruments with a powerful, penetrating tone, consisting of a tube commonly curved once or twice around on itself and having a cup-shaped mouthpiece at one end and a flaring bell at the other. an organ stop having a tone resembling that of a trumpet. a trumpeter.
• publish — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
• proclaim — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
• broadcast — A broadcast is a programme, performance, or speech on the radio or on television.
• promise — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
• announce — If you announce something, you tell people about it publicly or officially.
• advertise — If someone or something advertises a particular quality, they show it in their appearance or behaviour.
• declare — If you declare that something is true, you say that it is true in a firm, deliberate way. You can also declare an attitude or intention.
• foretoken — a sign of a future event; omen; forewarning.
• head — Edith, 1897–1981, U.S. costume designer.
• lead — to cover, line, weight, treat, or impregnate with lead or one of its compounds.
• pioneer — a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
• time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
• introduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
• scout — a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
• usher — James, 1581–1656, Irish prelate and scholar.
• rank — Otto [awt-oh] /ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1884–1939, Austrian psychoanalyst.
• preface — a preliminary statement in a book by the book's author or editor, setting forth its purpose and scope, expressing acknowledgment of assistance from others, etc.
• antedate — to be or occur at an earlier date than
• guide — to assist (a person) to travel through, or reach a destination in, an unfamiliar area, as by accompanying or giving directions to the person: He guided us through the forest.
• outrank — to have a higher rank than: A major outranks a captain in the army.