Another word for warn
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Verb
To notify (someone) of imminent danger or risk
- To warn in advance.
- Careful forethought to avoid danger or harm.
- Close attention or vigilance to minimize risk:
- Prudence or restraint in action or decision:
- Vigilantly attentive; watchful:
- Mentally responsive and perceptive; quick.
- Brisk or lively in action:
- Sudden fear or concern caused by the realization of danger or an impending setback.
- A warning of existing or approaching danger:
- A device that is used to warn of danger by means of a sound or signal:
- To counsel (another) against something to be avoided or warn (that something is dangerous):
- To urge or exhort (someone to do something):
- To remind (someone) of something forgotten or disregarded, as an obligation or a responsibility.
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Another word for warn
Verb
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- 1608, Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt— Shakespeare, Coriolanus
- A piece of confidential, advance, or inside information.
- An indication of an otherwise unknown fact or probability:
- (idiomatic) To raise a false alarm; to constantly warn others about an imagined threat, thereby failing to get assistance when a real threat appears.
- A slight indication or intimation:
- A brief or indirect suggestion; a tip:
- A statement conveying information in an indirect fashion; a clue:
- To offer for consideration or action; propose:
- To express or say indirectly:
- To make evident indirectly; intimate or imply:
- To praise or commend to another as being worthy or desirable; endorse:
- To make attractive or acceptable:
- To advise or counsel:
- To force or drive forward or onward; impel.
- To entreat earnestly and often repeatedly; exhort.
- To advocate earnestly the doing, consideration, or approval of; press for:
- To say or plead in protest, objection, or reproof.
- To reason or plead in protest; present an objection.
- To make ready beforehand for a specific purpose, as for an event or occasion:
- To put together or make by combining various elements or ingredients; manufacture or compound:
- To fit out; equip:
- To state, tell about, or make known in advance, especially on the basis of special knowledge:
- To foretell something.
- To command (someone) not to do something:
- To command against the doing or use of (something); prohibit:
- To have the effect of preventing; preclude:
- To express a threat against or give indications of taking hostile action against:
- To be a source of danger to; endanger:
- To give signs or warning of; portend:
- To express disapproval to (someone); criticize:
- To express disapproval about (something):
- To direct (a person) to do something; order or urge:
- To require or impose (an action or behavior, for example) with authority and emphasis; prescribe.
- To prohibit or forbid:
- To urge by strong, often stirring argument, admonition, advice, or appeal:
- To make an urgent appeal.
- The act of exchanging opinions and ideas; consultation:
- Advice or guidance, especially as solicited from a knowledgeable person.
- Private, guarded thoughts or opinions:
- To counsel (another) against something to be avoided or warn (that something is dangerous):
- To urge or exhort (someone to do something):
- To remind (someone) of something forgotten or disregarded, as an obligation or a responsibility.
- To arm or prepare in advance of a conflict.
- To cause to remember; put in mind:
- To give notice to; inform:
- To give notice of; make known.
- To give notice to; inform:
- To impart information to; make aware of something:
- To acquaint (oneself) with knowledge of a subject.
- To give form or character to; imbue with a quality or an essence:
- Vigilantly attentive; watchful:
- Mentally responsive and perceptive; quick.
- Brisk or lively in action:
- To offer advice to; counsel:
- To recommend; suggest:
- To inform; notify:
- An indicator, such as a gesture or colored light, that serves as a means of communication.
- A message communicated by such means.
- Something that incites action:
- Careful forethought to avoid danger or harm.
- Close attention or vigilance to minimize risk:
- Prudence or restraint in action or decision:
- To warn in advance.
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