warn off
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To directly or indirectly persuade someone not to take a particular course of action.
Example Sentences
- "I soon found I should be knocked entirely to pieces by the graze and jam of the boxes and scrippage, as the tide of carrier-ponies crushed past me, if I did not look sharply out and warn them off with my whip."
- "Some women for instance warn you off when they have their period."
- "The "D.N.B." wrote of one Railway Member that "he made himself personally acquainted with the working of the new systems of railroads, and with more foresight than his neighbours, he welcomed railways on his estate when other landowners were ordering their gamekeepers to warn off the surveyors or to put an end to their operations by force.""
- "Anyone found participating in, or even attending, flapping races is liable to be warned off."
Inflected Forms
warns off (present, singular)
warning off (participle, present)
warned off (participle, past)
warned off (past)