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Meaning of pretell | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To predict.

Examples

“The Roman historian Tacitus does not simply tell what has happened in a past long past so that it will be preserved for the present and into an endless future; rather, he pretells what has happened, in effect transposing history (necessarily of the past) into prediction (necessarily of the future).”

CEFR level

B1

Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

See also

pretelling pretells pretend pretended pretender pretendered