Definizione monolingua

warn

warn (third-person singular simple present warns, present participle warning, simple past and past participle warned)

1. (transitive) To make (someone) aware of impending danger etc. [from 11th c.]

   We waved a flag to warn the oncoming traffic.

2. (transitive) To caution (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour. [from 11th c.]

   He was warned against crossing the railway tracks at night.

   Dont let me catch you running in the corridor again, I warn you.

3. (transitive) To notify (someone) of something untoward. [from 13th c.]

   I phoned to warn him of the rail strike.

4. (intransitive) To give warning.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, tr. Bible, Galatians II, 9-10:

     then Iames Cephas and Iohn [...] agreed with vs that we shuld preache amonge the Hethen and they amonge the Iewes: warnynge only that we shulde remember the poore.

   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravitys Rainbow, Penguin 1995, p. 177:

     She is his deepest innocence in spaces of bough and hay before wishes were given a different name to warn that they might not come true [...].

   • 1988, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Picador 2000, p. 496:

     She warned that he was seriously thinking of withdrawing his offer to part the waters, ‘so that all youll get at the Arabian Sea is a saltwater bath [...]’.

   • 1991, Clive James, ‘Making Programmes the World Wants’, The Dreaming Swimmer, Jonathan Cape 1992:

     Every country has its resident experts who warn that imported television will destroy the national consciousness and replace it with Dallas, The Waltons, Star Trek and Twin Peaks.

Definizione dizionario warn

	avvertire
	To make someone aware of impending danger, etc.

ammonire

avvisare

denunciare

dichiarare

diffidare

dissuadere

informare

minacciare

notificare

prevenire

spiegare

Altri significati:

(transitive) To notify (someone) of something untoward. [from 13th c.]

(obsolete) To refuse, deny (someone something).

(transitive) To make (someone) aware of impending danger etc. [from 11th c.]

to notify someone of something untoward

tell someone to do something

(Discuss <sup>(+)</sup> this sense) (intransitive) To give warning.

to make someone aware of impending danger

(transitive) To caution (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour. [from 11th c.]