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Prefigure (Verb)

Indicate, as with a sign or an omen; "These signs bode bad news".

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.

The company's increasing debt seemed to prefigure a financial collapse.
Natural disasters and rising sea levels may prefigure a major catastrophe if global warming continues unchecked.
The dramatic shifts in world politics seemed to prefigure a new era of international relations.
High infant mortality rates in a region might prefigure poor healthcare services in that area.
Historians argue that the 1929 stock market crash prefigured the start of the Great Depression.

Imagine or consider beforehand; "It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured".

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing.

I had prefigured the day to be extremely hot, but it turned out to be mild and cloudy.
The small town prefigured changes that would later take place in larger cities.
Her concerns about the hurricane prefigured the devastating consequences that would follow.
The film's climax prefigured the inevitable downfall of the main character.
The reports of deforestation prefigured the devastating effects of climate change.