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warn off

warn off verb: to directly or indirectly persuade someone not to take a particular course of action.

Verb

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

  1. To directly or indirectly persuade someone not to take a particular course of action.
    • 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.1856, Robert Chambers, chapter 6, in Tracings of Iceland and the Faröe Islands, London & Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, page 47
    • Some women for instance warn you off when they have their period.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

warn off meaning in Urdu

warn off in Urdu

خلاف رائے دینا

Forms of warn off

third-person singular presentwarns off
present participlewarning off
past participlewarned off
pastwarned off

Questions about warn off

What does warn off mean?
Warn off means to directly or indirectly persuade someone not to take a particular course of action.
What is warn off in Urdu?
Warn off in Urdu is خلاف رائے دینا. See Warn off meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is warn off?
Warn off is a verb.
What is the past tense of warn off?
The past tense of warn off is warned off.

Words near warn off in the dictionary

  1. Warmuths
  2. warmware
  3. warmwater
  4. warmy
  5. warn
  6. warn off
  7. warn'd
  8. warn't
  9. warnable
  10. Warncoort
  11. Warndarang

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