0 past simple and past participle of prophesy --
1 to say that you believe something will happen in the future: --
[ + question word ] I wouldn't like to prophesy what will happen to that marriage!
[ + that ] He prophesied that the present government would only stay four years in office.
Few could have prophesied this war.
He prophesied that there would be an overall surplus of some few million pounds.
Even the present prophesied unemployment figure of 3 million underestimates the real level of unemployment.
While the free market operated the supply of private rented property did not increase, as his party prophesied.
It never had the effect which he so dolefully prophesied with regard to that class of transaction.
The industry was built up to a position which many people prophesied could not happen.
Five years later, in 1988, a second fire occurred—on time, as prophesied by the consultants.
What is significant about the past two years is that we have not had the economic downturn that practically everyone prophesied.
If the blitzkrieg prophesied by these commentators takes place, it will not get there in time anyway.
