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alert | forwarn |

As a proper noun alert

is the northernmost inhabited place in nunavut, canada.

As a verb forwarn is

to prohibit; forbid; deny (right, access to, etc).

alert

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Attentive; awake; on guard.
  • (obsolete) Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
  • * Addison
    • an alert young fellow

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An alarm.
  • A notification of higher importance than an advisory.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give warning to.

    • Anagrams

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    forwarn

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To prohibit; forbid; deny (right, access to, etc.).
  • *1690 , Thomas Shadwell, The amorous bigotte :
    • Oh Cousin this wicked Duoena, this Grycta suspects the good Woman who brought the Letter, and has forwarn'd her the House.
  • *1708 , Samuel Sewall, Diary :
    • I meet the Workman by Mr. Pemberton's Gate, and forewarn him from making of it; [...]
  • *1840 , Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, The works of Charles Lamb :
    • [...] having been caught putting the inside of the master's desk to a use for which the architect had clearly not designed it, to justify himself, with great simplicity averred, that he did not know that the thing had been forewarned .