Beware

Definition: Beware

Beware

Verb

1. Be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to; "Beware of telephone salesmen".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "beware" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonym: Beware

Resentment

Phrase: one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up; fervens difficili bile jecur; the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire; the blood rising, the blood boiling; haeret lateri lethalis arundo; " beware the fury of a patient man "; furor arma ministrat; ira furor brevis est; quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius; "What, drunk with choler? ".

Unbelief Doubt

Phrase: fronti nulla fides; nimium ne crede colori; "timeo Danaos et dona ferentes", beware of Greeks bearing gifts; credat Judaeus Apella; let those believe who may; ad tristem partem stenua est suspicio.

Warning

Interjection: beware! ware! take care! look out! fore!, mind what you are about!, take care what you are about! mind!

Beware, ware; take warning, take heed at one's peril; keep watch and ward; (care).

Crosswords: Beware

Where there is evil, beware. Where there is destruction, be warned (Power Rangers Turbo; writing credit: Brett Born; Shell Danielson)

But beware. Anger, fear, aggression (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; writing credit: George Lucas; Lawrence Kasdan)

But when the skies turn orange, beware theUhporridge (Sabrina the Animated Series; writing credit: Josh Stolberg)

Beware, gentle knight (The Adventures of Don Quixote; writing credit: Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra; J.M. Cohen)

Beware the beast man, for he is the Devil's pawn (Planet of the Apes; writing credit: Pierre Boulle; Michael Wilson)

People called said beware doll, you're bound to fall ("Like a Rolling Stone"; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

Telling me I got to beware ("For What It's Worth"; performing artist: Buffalo Springfield)

You better just beware (Bad, Bad Leroy Brown; performing artist: Jim Croce)

All young girls beware (Puppy Love; performing artist: Lil Bow Wow)

Beware the storm that gathers here (The Prophet's Song; performing artist: Queen; writing credit: Brian May)

Beware! The Blob (1972)

Beware the Black Widow (1968)

Smugglers Beware (1963)

Boys Beware (1961)

Girls Beware (1961)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Beware of Dog (Mcgrowl, No. 1) (reference)

• Beware of the Storybook Wolves (reference)

• Beware the Night: A New York City Cop Investigates the Supernatural (reference)

• Beware the Solitary Drinker (reference)

• Charmed: Beware What You Wish (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Beware! Children At Play (reference)

• Beware! The Blob! (reference)

• Lil Bow Wow: Beware of Video (reference)

• Sailors Beware (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Beware of Darkness (reference)

• Beware of Dog (reference)

• Suzanne Beware of the Devil: The Best of (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Floaters Beware sign at the Bear Trap. Credit: Merv Coleman.

Beware of AIDS. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Public Beware! : Warning Against The Hoxsey Cancer Treatment / U.S. Government Printing Office. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Beware smoking indian hemp destroys life. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Sam [...], beware of the Wellers!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Beware of entrance into a quarrel. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fort Benning. Loading bombing planes. Axis, beware! Bombardiers in training at Fort Benning, Georgia use practice bombs to learn the routine of loading a light bombing plane. Credit: Library of Congress.

War Production Board poster (WPB). "Beware Jap-Germs." This is one of a series of "Jap-Germs" posters that were spread through the Westinghouse plant at Bloomfield, New Jersey, under the auspices of the labor-management committee. The two-headed figure, t. Credit: Library of Congress.

Beware of them : these party changers are a danger to the stability of democracy and government : for a strong government and prosperity, vote Congress. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To which, if we add, that monarchy being simple, and most obvious to men, whom neither experience had instructed in forms of government, nor the ambition or insolence of empire had taught to beware of the encroachments of prerogative, or the inconveniences of absolute power, which monarchy in succession was apt to lay claim to, and bring upon them, it was not at all strange, that they should not much trouble themselves to think of methods of restraining any exorbitances of those to whom they had given the authority over them, and of balancing the power of government, by placing several parts of it in different hands. (Second Treatise of Government)

Beware, I say; time may be short. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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Shouldst thou fail me in this, beware! His fame, his position, his life, will be in my hands

Let us beware.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Beware of making that mistake

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "beware": beware lest ♦ beware of ♦ beware of doing smth. ♦ beware of Greeks bearing gifts ♦ beware of the dog ♦ beware of the dog! ♦ beware of the trains! ♦ beware of!. Additional references.

Albanian

ruhem (keep, mind, watch), hap sytë (lo). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حذر (admonish, advise, alert, alertness, be careful, be wise, cagey, calculating, calculation, canny, care, careful, caution, cautious, cautiousness, chariness, chary, considerate, discreet, discreetness, discretion, exhort, fabian, forewarn, guard, guarded, guarding, heedful, leery, look behind, look out, lookout, mind, on the alert, on the lookout, prudence, prudent, safe, shy, shyness, sound an alarm, suspicious, take care, vigilance, vigilant, wariness, warn, wary, watch, wide awake), ‏إحترس (look out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

внимавай (look ahead, look out, take care, watch it), внимавам (attend, be careful, go slow, guard, look out, mind, see, ware, watch out), пазя се (guard, guard against), пази се от. (various references)

Chinese 

�"心. (various references)

Czech

varovat se, dát si pozor. (various references)

Danish

cave (cave). (various references)

Dutch

cave (cave). (various references)

Farsi 

ملتفت بودن (Mind), حذرکردن از (Mind), زنهاردادن (Quarter), برحذربودن . (various references)

Finnish

varokaa (look out!, mind, take care!, watch out!), kavahtaa jotakin (boggle at). (various references)

French

se méfier, prendre garde, faire attention (be careful), attention. (various references)

German

vermeiden (avert, avoid, elude, evade, keep off, obviate, to avoid, to beware), sich hüten (guard), sich acht nehmen, hüten (be accustomed, guard, keep, look after, mind, tend, to beware, treasure, uphold, watch over), gib acht, cave (cave). (various references)

Greek 

προσέχω (advert, attend, be mindful, care, heed, keep an eye on, listen, look after, look at, look out, mind, notice, pay attention (to), reck, see to, take note, take notice of, watch out), προσοχή (advertence, attention, beware of, care, caution, circumspection, heed, intentness, note, notice, oyez, regard, thoughtfulness, wakefulness, watchfulness), φυλάσσομαι από, φυλάξου (mind). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שמר מן- (take heed), ל�"ז�"ר (be careful, look out, mind, watch). (various references)

Hungarian

tartózkodik (abide, dwell, sat, stay, to abide, to eschew, to hold back, to inhabit, to live, to make a stay, to sit, to sojourn), óvakodik (look out, to beware, to look out). (various references)

Italian

stare in guardia (guard, watch), stare attento a, guardarsi da, diffidare (admonish, distrust, mistrust, suspect, warn), attenzione (acuity, advertence, advertency, attention, care, carefulness, delicacy, esteem, heed, heedfulness, kindness, look out, mind out there, notice, regard). (various references)

Korean 

조심하십시�". (various references)

Manx

cur twoaie da (heed). (various references)

Pig Latin

ewarebay.(various references)

Portuguese

ter cuidado (look out, watch one's step), guardar-se, atenção (acuity, advertence, advertency, att, attention, care, courtesy, kindness, mind, mindfulness, observation, regard, remark, respect, thought, watch, watchout), acautelar-se (look out). (various references)

Romanian

se pãzi (guard), se feri (duck, elude, eschew, fight shy of smth., forbear, guard, shun). (various references)

Russian 

беречься (be careful, beware of). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

čuvati se (keep off, keep out, ware). (various references)

Spanish

atención (acuity, advertence, advertency, alertness, attention, attentiveness, care, chariness, fore, heed, kindness, look out, notice, regard, solicitude, thoughtfulness). (various references)

Swedish

var försiktig, akta sig (guard). (various references)

Thai

ระวัง (mind). (various references)

Turkish

sakınmak (abstain, avoid, be careful not to, be cautious, be wary of, be wary of doing smth., beg, cradle, eschew, evade, flee from, flinch, forbear, hang back, keep clear of, refrain, shuffle, shun, shy, steer clear of, Stow), kaçınmak (abstain, avoid, balk, baulk, beg, chicken out, dodge, elude, eschew, evade, flee, flee from, flinch, forbear, funk, get out of, keep clear of, refrain, refuse, shirk, short circuit, shun, sidestep, spare, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, steer clear of, Stow), dikkat (application, attention, attentiveness, care, carefulness, caution, cautiousness, cave, fore, look out, note, notice, regard, remark, shun, ware, watch out, watchfulness), çekinmek (boggle, chicken out, dread, fear, flee from, flinch, funk, get cold feet, hang back, have cold feet, hesitate, hold back, hold off, keep clear of, shrink, shun, shy, wince, withdraw). (various references)

Turkmen 

howtyrlanmak (beware of, fear). (various references)

Ukrainian

остерігатися (shun, ware, watch out), обережно (carefully, deliberately, discreetly, gently, gingerly, guardedly, handle with care, look ahead, look out, nix, providently, steady), берегтися. (various references)

Welsh

ymswyno (cross oneself), ymogel (avoid), ymochel (shelter), ymgroesi (cross oneself), gwylio (mind, watch), gochel (avert, avoid, shun). (various references)

caro, cautos, cave, caveam, caveant, cavebit, cavendum, caveo, caverant, cavere, cavet, cavete, praecave, praecavete. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "beware": bewared, bewares. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Beware" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bagwara, Beafra, beara, beare, beari, bearu, bedward, Begara, Bejaze, benare, bewary, bewray, biare, biowar, buearu, Buhari, Bunwaree, Gewerbe, Tewarie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: weber.

-2 letters: awee, bare, bear, beer, brae, braw, bree, brew, ewer, ware, wear, weer, were.

-3 letters: arb, are, awe, bar, bee, bra, ear, era, ere, ewe, raw, reb, ree, wab, wae, war, web, wee.

-4 letters: ab, ae, ar, aw, ba, be, er, re, we.

+1 letter: bewared, bewares, beweary, brewage.

+2 letters: bewailer, bewrayed, bewrayer, brewages, waterbed, wearable.

+3 letters: beachwear, becrawled, bedwarfed, beswarmed, bewailers, bewearied, bewearies, bewrapped, bewrayers, breezeway, newsbreak, renewable, renewably, screwbean, shewbread, tableware, waterbeds, wearables.

+4 letters: answerable, becowarded, beggarweed, bewearying, bilgewater, breakwater, breezeways, browbeaten, jawbreaker, lawbreaker, newsbreaks, reviewable, rewardable, screwbeans, shewbreads, sweetbread, sweetbriar, tablewares, unwearable, waterborne, waxberries, weaverbird, whereabout, whitebeard.