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 .

Verb

(en verb)

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

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*: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

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.

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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

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(lb) To receive payment for work.

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(lb) To receive payment for work.

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(lb) To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.

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(lb) To be worthy of.

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Verb

(en verb)

(UK, dialect, dated) To curdle, as milk.

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To long; to yearn.

* Spenser

And ever as he rode, his heart did earn / To prove his puissance in battle brave.

(obsolete) To grieve.