单词 | warn |
释义 | warn transitive verb 1. a. < 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. < warned me not to be too eager — London Calling > < against such idiocy we are warned by an adage — W.F.Hambly > c. < 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. < 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. < 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. < the commission could only warn that chaos and war would result — R.C.Pollock > intransitive verb 1. < 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 Synonyms: < 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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