indicate vs betoken

indicate and betoken both are verbs.

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

As verbs, indicate and betoken are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of indicate include bespeak, point, signal.

As verbs, betoken is a hyponym of indicate; that is, betoken is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than indicate:

indicate (verb)	betoken (verb)
to state or express briefly	indicate, as with a sign or an omen
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