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单词 warn
释义 warn
\ˈwȯ(ə)rn, ˈwȯ(ə)n\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English warnen, from Old English warnian to take heed, warn; akin to Old High German warnōn to take heed, Old English wær aware, wary — more at wary
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to put on guard : give notice, information, or intimation to beforehand especially of approaching or probable danger or evil
  < by … the display of a red lamp they managed to warn the driver — O.S.Nock >
  < warned them about the quicksand >
  — sometimes used with off
  < young folks are warned off — Theodore Dreiser >
 b. : admonish, reprehend, counsel
  < warned me not to be too eager — London Calling >
  < against such idiocy we are warned by an adage — W.F.Hambly >
 c. : to notify or apprise especially in advance : call to one's attention : make aware : inform
  < must warn you that they're only my opinions — Richard Joseph >
  < the mounting heat of June warned us that the exposition would close its doors — Agnes Repplier >
2. : to notify, summon, or dismiss by authority : bid to go or leave : command
 < a corporal called … to warn him for Driving School immediately — Earle Birney >
 < heroes … warned so imperiously out of her modern living room — Virginia Woolf >
3. : to prohibit from advancing, trespassing, or remaining by a warning gesture, notice, order, or device
 < lighthouses were built to warn sailors off the rocky … coast — American Guide Series: Oregon >
 < warned away an English vessel — D.E.Clark >
 < had been in the garden but an armed Partisan appeared and warned her inside — Milton Bracker >
4. : to relate or report as a warning, intimation, caution, or admonishment
 < the commission could only warn that chaos and war would result — R.C.Pollock >
intransitive verb
1. : to give a warning
 < their titles … warn of a meaning which goes behind story, people, even setting — E.K.Brown >
 < he warns against … a fatal illusion — A.L.Locke >
2. dialect Britain, of a clock : to strike a specified hour or to make sounds preparatory to striking
Synonyms:
 caution, forewarn: warn is a general term lacking specific connotation and varying in meaning from simple appraisal of something, with or without any possible dangers, to truculent threats of personal violence
  < the introductory music warns us that another enjoyable evening of television is about to commence — advt >
  < I warn him that the sword I wear shall pink his lily-scented cassock through and through, next time I catch him underneath your eaves — Robert Browning >
  caution may suggest a more formal, mild, well-meaning admonition, especially against imprudence, carelessness, or folly
  < cautions his readers against the common error of looking to antiquity for knowledge — H.T.Buckle >
  forewarn is likely to be used in more specific situations and to imply warning of coming danger given in time to permit prudent defense and safeguarding
  < very likely the parson had reason for being mad … there was a suggestiveness in the names of the acts which would have forewarned anybody — Margaret Deland >
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