MEANING
1. To suggest or foreshadow how something may turn out.
2. A person, especially in ancient Rome, who interprets signs as indications of divine will or future events.
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Words that belong together
- augur well
- augur badly
On the page
The silence did not augur well for the meeting.
A warm wind augured an early thaw.
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Word forms
- Base
- augur
- Past tense
- augured
- Past participle
- augured
- Present participle
- auguring
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- augur
- Present continuous
- am/is/are auguring
- Present perfect
- have/has augured
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been auguring
- Past
- augured
- Past continuous
- was/were auguring
- Past perfect
- had augured
- Past perfect continuous
- had been auguring
- Future
- will augur
- Future continuous
- will be auguring
- Future perfect
- will have augured
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been auguring
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: augur; augurs; augured; augured; auguring Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: augurs.
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