0 past simple and past participle of prophesy
1 to say that you believe something will happen in the future:
Few could have prophesied this war.
[ + that ] He prophesied that the present government would only stay four years in office.
[ + question word ] I wouldn't like to prophesy what will happen to that marriage!
He prophesied to them in secret all the happenings that would take place on their journey.
Indeed, he had prophesied the exact opposite: a decline of productivist dogma in favor of progressive experimentation.
He prophesied that in the future the victims might be rehabilitated (p. 96).
Experience has entirely falsified all the dire consequences that were prophesied as to what would happen.
Large welfare milk rounds in inner city areas will suffer huge losses—£50 to £60 a week, it has been prophesied.
Socialists many years ago prophesied that in time to come this competition would have to go, and that rationalisation would have to be substituted.
He almost prophesied that there would be a tornado of appeals thundering down upon the poor valuation officers.
If the blitzkrieg prophesied by these commentators takes place, it will not get there in time anyway.
