betoken vs indicate

betoken and indicate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
betoken	No	No	Yes	No
indicate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, indicate is a hypernym of betoken; that is, indicate is a word with a broader meaning than betoken:

Other hypernyms of betoken include bespeak, betoken, point, signal.

As verbs, betoken and indicate are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of betoken include bespeak, point, signal.

betoken (verb)	indicate (verb)
indicate, as with a sign or an omen	to state or express briefly
be a signal for or a symptom of	be a signal for or a symptom of
	give evidence of
	indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
	suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine