Warn

Verb

 * 1)  To make (someone) aware of impending danger etc.
 * We waved a flag to warn the oncoming traffic.
 * 1)  To caution (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour.
 * He was warned against crossing the railway tracks at night.
 * Don't let me catch you running in the corridor again, I warn you.
 * 1)  To notify (someone) of something untoward.
 * I phoned to warn him of the rail strike.
 * 1)   To give warning.
 * 2) *1526, William Tyndale, tr. Bible, Galatians II, 9-10:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, Penguin 1995, p. 177:
 * 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 [...].
 * 1) * 1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Picador 2000, p. 496:
 * 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 [...]’.
 * 1) *1991, Clive James, ‘Making Programmes the World Wants’, The Dreaming Swimmer, Jonathan Cape 1992:
 * 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.

Verb

 * 1)  To refuse, deny (someone something).
 * 2) *1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVI:
 * And if that thou warne hir love she shal dy anone – if thou have no pite on her.

Adverbs for Warn
providentially; solemnly; amply; sufficiently; grimly; prophetically; urgently; graciously; forcefully; subtly; soberly; earnestly; faithfully.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology 1
warnian, from. Cognate with German warnen:.

Etymology 2
From a combination of wiernan: (from ; compare Danish værne:) and  wearnian: (from ; compare Swedish varna:).

Verb

 * Arabic: حذر
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: advertir,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 警告, ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto:
 * French: ,
 * German:


 * Greek:
 * Japanese: 警告する, 言い聞かせる
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Russian:,   ,   предостерегать,   предостеречь
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: попередити


 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,


 * : waarschuwen
 * : monere
 * : preveni (1), avertiza (2), (3)
 * : uyarmak

Derived terms

 * warner
 * warning
 * warn off

Anagrams

 * ANWR