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warn
What does warn mean?
warn (verb): notify of danger, potential harm, or risk.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use warn in a sentence?
- The director warned him that he might be fired. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce warn?
/wɔɹn/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does warn come from?
From Middle English warnen, warnien (“to warn; admonish”), from Old English warnian (“to take heed; warn”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to warn
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “warn” mean?
to come or go back (to a place or person)
Not quite: that's what return means.
to contain comfortably; to have space for
Not quite: that's what accommodate means.
notify of danger, potential harm, or risk
Right! That's what “warn” means.
use up a period of time in a specific way
Not quite: that's what spend means.
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