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content warn

content warn verb: to issue a content warning for.

Verb

content warn (third-person singular simple present content warns, present participle content warning, simple past and past participle content warned)

  1. (colloquial, transitive) To issue a content warning for.
    • The movie really should've content warned its police brutality and not just the drug use.

Forms of content warn

third-person singular presentcontent warns
present participlecontent warning
past participlecontent warned
pastcontent warned

Origin of content warn

Back-formation from content warning.

Questions about content warn

What does content warn mean?
Content warn means to issue a content warning for.
What part of speech is content warn?
Content warn is a verb.
What is the past tense of content warn?
The past tense of content warn is content warned.

Words near content warn in the dictionary

  1. content note
  2. content notes
  3. content psychology
  4. content repositories
  5. content repository
  6. content warn
  7. content warned
  8. content warning
  9. content warnings
  10. content warns
  11. content word

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