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cautioned

cautioned is the past participle of caution.

Meaning of caution

Verb

caution (third-person singular simple present cautions, present participle cautioning, simple past and past participle cautioned)

  1. (transitive) To warn; to alert, advise that caution is warranted.
    • "Careful, Uwe," cautions my Venezuelan explorer friend, José Miguel Pérez, with a grim smile. "You're too big for us to carry back down."1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 535
  2. (UK, transitive) To read someone their formal legal rights as part of a lawful arrest.
    • They're under arrest. Caution them, will you?1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Dead Man's Eleven”, in Midsomer Murders
  3. To give a yellow card.

See all 9 meanings of caution

Adjective

cautioned (not comparable)

  1. That has received a caution (typically from the police)

Words formed from cautioned

Questions about cautioned

What does cautioned mean?
Cautioned means that has received a caution (typically from the police).
What is cautioned the past participle of?
Cautioned is the past participle of caution.
What part of speech is cautioned?
Cautioned is an adjective.

Words near cautioned in the dictionary

  1. cautionary
  2. cautionary block
  3. cautionary blocks
  4. cautionary tale
  5. cautionary tales
  6. cautioned
  7. cautioner
  8. cautioners
  9. cautioneth
  10. cautioning
  11. cautionings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cautioned (page history and authors); caution (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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