Definition of Warn

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Definition of Warn

Warn

To refuse.

To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to warn a tenant to quit a house.

To give notice to, of approaching or probable danger or evil; to caution against anything that may prove injurious.

To ward off.

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Warn Quotations

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Abraham Maslow

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
Alan Greenspan

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.
William Bernbach

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
Desmond Tutu

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Baruch Spinoza

When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
Matt Groening

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
Matt Groening

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
Queen Victoria

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
Nikolai Gogol

Warn Translations

warn in Afrikaans is waarsku
warn in Danish is advare
warn in Dutch is waarschuwen
warn in Finnish is varoittaa
warn in French is avertir, avertissons, avertis, avertissez
warn in German is warnen
warn in Italian is dissuadere
warn in Latin is praecipio, precipio
warn in Portuguese is advirta
warn in Spanish is apremiar, desaconsejar

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