Definition of "foresee"

foresee

/fɔɹˈsi/

verb
third-person singular simple present foresees, present participle foreseeing, simple past foresaw, past participle foreseen
1. To be able to see beforehand: to anticipate; predict.
  Quotations
  A prudent man foreſeeth the euill, and hideth himſelfe: but the ſimple paſſe on, and are puniſhed.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Proverbs 22:3
  Ariel. My Maſter through his Art foreſees the danger That you (his friend) are in, and ſends me forth (For elſe his proiect dies) to keepe them liuing.
  1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i], page 8
  "I foresee in this," he says, "the breaking up of our profession."
  1838, Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter
2. (obsolete) To provide.
  Quotations
  Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.
  1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Vicissitude of Things”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret

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