Warn

/wɔːn/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:.

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially:
2. (transitive) To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour.
3. (chiefly with "off", "away", and similar words) To advise or order to go or stay away.
4. (intransitive) To give warning.

Example Sentences

He was warned against crossing the railway tracks at night.

Don't let me catch you running in the corridor again, I warn you.

A sign warns trespassers off/away from the site.

then Iames Cephas and Iohn [...] agreed with vs that we shuld preache amonge the Hethen and they amonge the Iewes: warnynge only that we shulde remember the poore.

She is his deepest innocence in spaces of bough and hay before wishes were given a different name to warn that they might not come true [...].

She warned that he was seriously thinking of withdrawing his offer to part the waters, ‘so that all you'll get at the Arabian Sea is a saltwater bath [...]’.

Every country has its resident experts who warn that imported television will destroy the national consciousness and replace it with Dallas, The Waltons, Star Trek and Twin Peaks.

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Antonyms for warn

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Word Forms

• warns
• warning
• warned

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