warn

4 definitions found

warn - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Warn \Warn\ (w[add]rn), v. t. [OE. wernen, AS. weornan, wyrnan.
     Cf. Warn to admonish.]
     To refuse. [Written also wern, worn.] [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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  Warn \Warn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Warned; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Warning.] [OE. warnen, warnien, AS. warnian, wearnian, to
     take heed, to warn; akin to AS. wearn denial, refusal, OS.
     warning, wernian, to refuse, OHG. warnen, G. warnen to warn,
     OFries. warna, werna, Icel. varna to refuse; and probably to
     E. wary. ????.]
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     1. To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to
        give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify
        or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to
        warn a tenant to quit a house. "Warned of the ensuing
        fight." --Dryden.
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              Cornelius the centurion . . . was warned from God by
              an holy angel to send for thee.       --Acts x. 22.
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              Who is it that hath warned us to the walls? --Shak.
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     2. To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or
        evil; to caution against anything that may prove
        injurious. "Juturna warns the Daunian chief of Lausus'
        danger, urging swift relief." --Dryden.
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     3. To ward off. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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warn - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  warn
      v 1: notify of danger, potential harm, or risk; "The director
           warned him that he might be fired"; "The doctor warned me
           about the dangers of smoking"
      2: admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior; "I warned
         him not to go too far"; "I warn you against false
         assumptions"; "She warned him to be quiet" [syn: warn,
         discourage, admonish, monish]
      3: ask to go away; "The old man warned the children off his
         property"
      4: notify, usually in advance; "I warned you that I would ask
         some difficult questions"

warn - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "warn":
     admonish, advise, alarm, alert, apprehend, apprise, arouse, ask,
     ask for, be imminent, blackmail, bludgeon, bode, bulldoze,
     call for, caution, challenge, charge, claim, clamor for, comminate,
     counsel, croak, cry for, cry havoc, cry out against, cry wolf,
     daunt, demand, denounce, direct, dissuade, encourage, enjoin,
     exact, exhort, expostulate, extort, fly storm warnings, forebode,
     forewarn, frighten, frighten off, give fair warning, give notice,
     give warning, guide, have a premonition, have a presentiment,
     impose, incite, indent, induce, inform, intimidate, issue a caveat,
     issue an ultimatum, kid out of, levy, look black, look threatening,
     lower, make a demand, menace, move, notify, order, order up,
     persuade, place an order, portend, preach, preapprehend, prompt,
     put in requisition, remonstrate, require, requisition, screw,
     sound the alarm, sound the tocsin, startle, talk out of, tell,
     threaten, tip, tip off, unpersuade, urge, utter a caveat,
     utter threats against, warn against