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Warn vs Dare - What's the difference?

warn | dare |

As a verb warn

is to make (someone) aware of impending danger etc or warn can be (label) to refuse, deny (someone something).

As a noun dare is

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warn

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) warnian, from (etyl) . Cognate with German warnen, Dutch waarnen.

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make (someone) aware of impending danger etc.
  • We waved a flag to warn the oncoming traffic.
  • To caution (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour.
  • He was warned against crossing the railway tracks at night.
    Don't let me catch you running in the corridor again, I warn you.
  • To notify (someone) of something untoward.
  • I phoned to warn him of the rail strike.
  • 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, Gravity's 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 you'll 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 .
    Usage notes
    * The intransitive sense is considered colloquial by some, and is explicitly proscribed by, for example, the Daily Telegraph style guide (which prefers give warning).
    Derived terms
    * warner * warning * warn off

    Etymology 2

    From a combination of (etyl) wiernan (from (etyl) ; compare Swedish varna).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To refuse, deny (someone something).
  • *:
  • *:And yf thou warne' her loue she shalle goo dye anone yf thou haue no pyte on her / that sygnefyeth the grete byrd / the whiche shalle make the to ' warne her
  • dare

    English

    (wikipedia dare)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) durran, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • To have enough courage (to do something).
  • I wouldn't dare argue with my boss.
  • * Shakespeare
  • The fellow dares not deceive me.
  • * Macaulay
  • Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Because they durst not, because they could not.
  • To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
  • I dare you to kiss that girl.
  • To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to
  • Will you dare death to reach your goal?
  • * The Century
  • To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes.
  • To terrify; to daunt.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • For I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs, / Would dare a woman.
  • To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.
  • (Nares)
    Usage notes
    * Dare is a semimodal verb. The speaker can choose whether to use the auxiliary "to" when forming negative and interrogative sentences. For example, "I don't dare (to) go" and "I dare not go" are both correct. Similarly "Dare you go?" and "Do you dare (to) go?" are both correct. * In negative and interrogative sentences where "do" is not used, the third-person singular form of the verb is usually "dare" and not "dares": "Dare he go? He dare not go." * Colloquially, "dare not" can be contracted to "daren't". * The expression dare say'', used almost exclusively in the first-person singular and in the present tense, means "think probable". It is also spelt ''daresay . * Historically, the simple past of dare was durst. In the 1830s, it was overtaken by dared, which has been markedly more common ever since.
    Derived terms
    * daredevil * daren't * daresay * daresn't

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A challenge to prove courage.
  • The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
  • * Shakespeare
  • It lends a lustre / A large dare to our great enterprise.
  • defiance; challenge
  • * Chapman
  • Childish, unworthy dares / Are not enought to part our powers.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Sextus Pompeius / Hath given the dare to Caesar.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) darian.

    Verb

    (dar)
  • (obsolete) To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified.
  • (obsolete) To lie or crouch down in fear.
  • *, Bk.XX, ch.xix:
  • *:‘Sir, here bene knyghtes com of kyngis blod that woll nat longe droupe and dare within thys wallys.’
  • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small fish, the dace.
  • * 1766 , Richard Brookes, The art of angling, rock and sea-fishing
  • The Dare is not unlike a Chub, but proportionably less; his Body is more white and flatter, and his Tail more forked.
    (Webster 1913)

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