foresee Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb realize beforehand
    anticipate; foreknow; previse.
  2. verb picture to oneself; imagine possible
    envision.
    • I cannot envision him as President
  3. verb act in advance of; deal with ahead of time
    forestall; anticipate; counter.

WordNet

Fore*see" transitive verb
Etymology
AS. foreseón; fore + seón to see. See See, v. t.
Definitions
  1. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.
    A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3.
  2. To provide. Obs.
    Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon.
Fore*see" intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To have or exercise foresight. Obs.

Webster 1913