Warn

Definition: Warn

Warn

Verb

1. Notify of danger, potential harm, or risk; "The director warned him that he might be fired"; "you will get hungry if you don't eat," he warned; "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".

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".

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

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

WARN

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Warn

Alarm

Verb: give the alarm, raise the alarm, sound the alarm, turn in the alarm, beat the alarm, give an alarm, raise an alarm, sound an alarm, turn in an alarm, beat an alarm; Noun: alarm; warn; ring the tocsin; battre la generale; cry wolf.

Dissuasion

Verb: dissuade, dehort, cry out against, remonstrate, expostulate, warn, contraindicate.

Prohibition

Keep in, keep within bounds; restrain; cohibit, withhold, limit, circumscribe, clip the wings of, restrict; interdict, taboo; put under an interdiction, place under an interdiction; put under the ban, place under the ban; proscribe; exclude, shut out; shut the door, bolt the door, show the door; warn off; dash the cup from one's lips; forbid the banns.

Warning

Verb: warn, caution; forewarn, prewarn; admonish, premonish; give notice, give warning, dehort; menace; (threaten); put on one's guard; sound the alarm; croak.

Crosswords: Warn

I have to warn you, I've heard relationships based on intense experiences never work (Speed; writing credit: Graham Yost)

However, I must warn you, mademoiselle: Do not allow evil into your heart, it will make a home there (Death on the Nile; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Anthony Shaffer)

It tries to warn you itself with its terrible taste (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I thought you were Bob and I came to warn you. (ReBoot; writing credit: Christy Marx; Mark Leiren-Young)

You wait here, I'll go warn the Wizard of Oz. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

I tried to warn you somehow ("Who's Sorry Now"; performing artist: Connie Francis)

My homeboys tried to warn me (Baby Got Back; performing artist: SIR MIX-A-LOT)

If this is the kind of love that your mom used to warn you about (911; performing artist: Wyclef Jean)

Warn That Man (1944)

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Books

• "I feel I should warn you ..." : historic preservation cartoons (reference)

• I Feel I Should Warn You (reference)

• Practical Guide to the Warn 'Plant Closing' Law (reference)

• Revisiting the WARN Act : coverage, compliance, and enforcement : hearing before the Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, first session ... February 23, 1993 (reference)

• The Warn ACT: A Manager's Compliance Guide to Workforce Reductions (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Warn You Pikin (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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In remote areas with little human habitation, the most appropriate action may be to post signs on the roads entering the epizootic area to warn people, and provide information on personal protection and plague prevention. Credit: CDC.

Colored lithograph of an artwork by B. Russell, depicting CSS Shenandoah's assault on the U.S. whale ships in the Bering Sea area. Individual items shown are (from left to right): brig Susan Abigail (burning); ship Euphrates (burning--distant); CSS Shenandoah; ship Jerah Swift (burning--distant); ship William Thompson (burning--distant); ship Sophia Thornton (burning); whaleboat going to warn other whalers (very distant); ship Milo which carried the destroyed vessels' crews to San Francisco; ice in the distance. Credit: NAVY.

Why do you not warn me to cease?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Messengers were sent to warn the settlers of the Indian uprising. Credit: Library of Congress.

I have come here to warn you : you must go -- escape -- tonight. Credit: Library of Congress.

Troops in Australia. An American light tank, manned by an Australian crew, smashed through Japanese pillboxes in the final assault on Buna. This picture, taken during the actual fighting, shows an infantry commander jumping on the tank to warn the crew of. Credit: Library of Congress.

We French workers warn you - defeat means slavery, starvation, death / Ben Shahn. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

warn the persons threatened

And the second time they really warn him.

I warn you, mothers, that my sympathies do not always make the usual philanthropic distinctions

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Health

Warn young mothers and menopausal women that incontinence may occur. (references)

Warn patients facing visual or mobility limitations that their continence may be affected. (references)

Your physician should keep a careful record of the cumulative dose and should warn you if your child passes the usual limits. (references)

Children

Indonesia

Throughout the year, UNICEF continued to warn of a "lost generation" of youth as a result of the economic crisis. (references)

Civil Liberties

United Arab Emirates

Government officials reportedly warn journalists when they publish material deemed politically or culturally sensitive. (references)

Kazakhstan

The editor of HBC-Press asserted that representatives of the KNB at the press conference did not warn journalists not to publish the press release. (references)

Human Rights

Honduras

The new Criminal Procedures Code provides defendants with additional rights that reduce their likelihood of being detained, which some critics warn may reduce the conviction rate of hardened criminals. (references)

Political Economy

RUSSIA

Investors in the consumer goods sector continue to warn the Russian government that they will not make further investments if infringement of intellectual property rights continues. (references)

Trade

Cyprus

This trend raised Balance of Payments concerns, leading the Central Bank to warn borrowers in early July 2001 to be cautious of exchange rate movements, instead of just interest rate differentials. (references)

Women

Mauritania

For example, a 1996 officially produced Guide to the Rights of Women in Mauritania (with religious endorsement) stressed that Islam does not require FGM and that, if medical experts warn against it for medical reasons, it should not be done. (references)

Worker Rights

Netherlands

Local governments have initiated in-school campaigns to warn girls of the danger of loverboys. (references)

Panama

The Government does not conduct educational campaigns to warn of the dangers of trafficking, and there are no programs to aid victims. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "warn": Duty to Warn ♦ warn against ♦ warn away ♦ warn from ♦ warn off ♦ warn smb. ♦ warn smb. of a danger. Additional references.

Beginning with "warn": warn-off.

Ending with "warn": pre-warn.

Afrikaans

waarsku (caution). (various references)

Albanian

paralajmëroj (admonish, bespeak, bode, caution, exhort, forebode, forecast, forerun, foreshadow, foretoken, forewarn, harbinger, hint, notice, presage, previse, threaten, tip off, tip the wink), njoftoj paraprakisht, këshilloj (admonish, advise, counsel, exhort, prescribe, recommend, suggest). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حذر (admonish, advise, alert, alertness, be careful, be wise, beware, 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, wary, watch, wide awake), ‏خبر (acquaint, apprise, apprize, inform, news, report, short story, tell, tip off), ‏أمر (affair, behest, charge, command, decree, dictate, direct, direction, enjoin, fiat, give an order, instruct, instruction, intimation, matter, officer, ordain, order, ordinance, prescribe, prescript, prescription, sound, thing, word), ‏أنذر (bode, croak, devote oneself, forebode, forecast, foretoken, give smb. notice, harbor, harbour, notify, portend, vow, warn against), ‏شعر (feel, felt, furriness, hair, notify, poetry, rhyme, sense, song, verse), ‏دعا (allege, beckon, bid, call, claim, contend, enter a plea, feign, fetch, invite, name, plead, profess, purport, recall, set up, summon, term). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съветвам (admonish, advise, exhort, monitor, recommend), съобщавам предварително, уведомявам (acquaint, apprise, apprize, inform, let know, notify), предупреждавам (admonish, caution, factorize, forewarn, notice, premonish, previse). (various references)

Chinese 

警告 (Cautionary, Cautioned, Cautioning, Caveat, Warned, Warning), 箴 , 井 (well), 儆 (admonish), 告誡 (admonish). (various references)

Czech

vypovìdìt (annul, banish, declare, denounce, deport, discontinue, exile, expel, outlaw, proscribe, relegate, terminate, warn off), varovat, upozornit (call, point out, refer), napomenout. (various references)

Danish

advare (caution). (various references)

Dutch

waarschuwen (admonish, caution, scold). (various references)

Esperanto

averti (caution). (various references)

Faeroese

ávara (caution). (various references)

Farsi 

هشداردادن , تذکردادن (Callup), اگاه کردن (Acquaint, Admonish, Inform), اخطارکردن به (Caution). (various references)

Finnish

varoittaa (caution). (various references)

French

avertir, alerter. (various references)

German

warnen (admonish, alarm, alert, caution, to warn). (various references)

Greek 

προειδοποιώ (advise, caution, forewarn). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תרי�" (caution), ל�"תרות (caution), ל�"עי�" (affirm, attest, aver, bear witness, give evidence, testify, vouch, witness), ל�"ז�"יר (caution, tip off), �"ז�"יר. (various references)

Hungarian

figyelmeztet (admonish, alarm, caution, exhort, forewarn, indicate, raise the alarm, sound the alarm, tip the wink, to admonish, to caution, to exhort, to forewarn, to serve notice, to tip, to tip the wink, to warn), felszólít (call, invite, to call on, to call upon, to desire, to summon, to warn). (various references)

Icelandic

vara (caution). (various references)

Indonesian

memperingatkan (admonish). (various references)

Italian

avvertire (alert, apprise, apprize, caution, feel, forewarn, inform, sense). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

諭す (to admonish, to persuade, to remonstrate, to warn), 諫める (to remonstrate, to warn not to do something), 言い聞かせる (to instruct, to persuade, to tell someone to do something, to warn), 差し固める (to close or shut tight, to warn sharply). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さしかためる (to close or shut tight, to warn sharply), さとす (to admonish, to persuade, to remonstrate, to warn), いさめる (to remonstrate, to warn not to do something), いいきかせる (to instruct, to persuade, to tell someone to do something, to warn). (various references)

Korean 

경� 하십시�". (various references)

Manx

raaueghey (caution), cur raaue da (alarm, caution, frighten). (various references)

Papiamen

avisá (caution). (various references)

Pig Latin

arnway.(various references)

Portuguese

prevenir (avert, avoid, caution, evade, forearm, forewarn, inform, obviate, prevent, previse), avisar (acquaint, admonish, advertise, advertize, advise, bill, caution, counsel, forewarn, notify, poster, publicize, tell, threaten), advertir (admonish, advert, advertise, advertize, caution, expostulate, forbid, forewarn, poster, publicize, remonstrate, reprimand, scold). (various references)

Romanian

preveni (admonish, apprise, apprize, avert, caution, forewarn, give notice, head, help, hold off), cita (adduce, cite, quote), aviza (approve, decide, inform, let know), avertiza (apprise, apprize, caution, forewarn), aduce la cunoştinţã (notify), încunoştinţa (acquaint with). (various references)

Russian 

предупреждать (alerts, denounce, forestall, give a warning, notify, prevent, tip off). (various references)

Scottish

earalaich (caution). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zapretiti (menace, threaten), upozoriti (admonish, caution, forewarn), opomenuti (admonish). (various references)

Spanish

avisar (advise, alert, announce, apprise, apprize, caution, inform, notify, premonish, signal, tip off). (various references)

Swedish

varsko (caution, forewarn, notify), varna (admonish, alert, caution, sensitize), råda (advise, counsel, coupsel, obtain, prevail, reign), förmana (admonish, caution, exhort). (various references)

Turkish

uyarmak (admonish, advise, advise against, advise smb. of smth., alert, awake, awake smb. to smth., caution, charge, excite, exhort, expostulate, forewarn, give notice, give smb. notice of, give warning, induce, lecture, remonstrate, serve notice, sex up, stimulate, tip, tip off, tip smb. off, tip the wink), tembih etmek (admonish, caution, exhort, recommend), ikaz etmek (awaken, forewarn), ihtar etmek (admonish, caution, give warning, notify, reprehend, serve notice), ihbar etmek (blow the whistle on, complain, delate, denounce, fink on, grass, grass on smb., inform, inform against, peach, peach against, peach on, put on the scent, rat, report, tell on smb., turn in), haber vermek (acquaint, advertise, advise, announce, apprise, break the news, give notice, give smb. notice of, Herald, inform, let smb. know, notify, put smb. wise to, shadow forth, shadow out, tell, wise up), öğütlemek (advise, recommend). (various references)

Turkmen 

duяdurmak (inform, portend). (various references)

Ukrainian

упереджати (prevent), викликати (arouse, bring forth, bring on, call, call in, cause, challenge, champion, cite, create, defy, evoke, necessitate, procure, provoke, send for, send up, set smb. agog, stir up, strike, summon, touch off, wake, whistle up), застерігати (admonish, caution, forewarn, premonish, previse), провіщати (adumbrate, bode, cast, divine, forebode, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, harbinger, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, promise, shadow, signify, threaten, vaticinate), попереджати (admonish, advertise, advertize, caution, denounce, exhort, notice, tip off). (various references)

Welsh

siarsio (charge, enjoin), rhybuddio (admonish, caution). (various references)

admonere, commone, commoneam, commonebo, commonefaciat, commonentes, commonere, commonerentur, monens, monent, monentes, monentis, monere, moneret, monili, monita, monuit, praeceperam, praeceperas, praeceperat, praeceperis, praeceperit, praecepero, praeceperunt, praeceperuntque, praecepi, praecepimus, praecepique, praecepisse, praecepisset, praecepisti, praecepit, praecepitque, praecepta, praecepti, praeceptis, praecepto, praeceptorum, praeceptum, praecepturus, praecipe, praeciperent, praecipiam, praecipiat, praecipiebat, praecipiendo, praecipiendum, praecipiens, praecipiente, praecipientes, praecipientium, praecipies, praecipiet, praecipio, praecipio, precipio, praecipis, praecipit, precipio, salomone. (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 "warn": warned, warner, warners, warning, warningly, warnings, warns. (additional references)

Words ending with "warn": forewarn, prewarn. (additional references)

Words containing "warn": forewarned, forewarning, forewarns, prewarned, prewarning, prewarns, unwarned. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Warn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aarn, ewarn, jarn, narn, qwern, Sarn, varn, waar, waen, Wahn, wairn, wanq, waon, warb, waren, warg, warin, warna, waro, warr, warx, Waryn, warz, wasn, waurn, waxn, wayn, wearn, weirn, weran, weren, werh, Wern, wirn, woran, worna, wornt, wrank, wrant, wraq. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: awn, naw, ran, raw, wan, war.

-2 letters: an, ar, aw, na.

+1 letter: brawn, drawn, prawn, rawin, rewan, rowan, warns, wrang.

+2 letters: answer, brawns, brawny, enwrap, fawner, gnawer, inward, inwrap, narrow, narwal, nonwar, onward, pawner, pawnor, prawns, rawins, resawn, rowans, runway, thrawn, undraw, unwary, unwrap, wander, wanier, wanner, wanter, warden, waring, warned, warner, warren, weaner, wrangs, yawner.

+3 letters: answers, antiwar, crewman, drawing, enwraps, fanwort, fawners, fawnier, gnawers, indrawn, inwards, inwraps, manward, narrows, narwals, narwhal, nonwars, onwards, pawners, pawnors, prawned, prawner, predawn, prewarn, rainbow, rawness, redrawn, renewal, rewaken, ringtaw, runaway, runways, scrawny, spawner, sunward, swanker, tawnier, tinware, twanger, unaware, undrawn, undraws, unswear, unweary, unwraps, vanward, wagoner, wairing, wakener, wanders, wangler, wanters, wardens, warding, warison, warking, warming, warners, warning, warping, warrant, warrens, warring, warworn, wayworn, weaners, wearing, wireman, workman, wrangle, yawners.