verb (v)

• imagine or consider beforehand(verb.creation)

  Example:
  It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured.
  

  source: wordnet30
• indicate by signs(verb.communication)

  Synonym:
  augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate
  

  source: wordnet30
• To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow.(verb)

  source: webster1913