indicate vs portend

indicate and portend both are verbs.

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

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

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