Meanings
verbawarn (third-person singular simple present awarns, present participle awarning, simple past and past participle awarned)
present singular third person awarns · participle present awarning · participle past awarned · past awarned
- obsoletetransitiveTo warn.
That every bird and beast awarned made To shrowd themselves
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
- Middle Englishawarnye
- Englishawarn
From Middle English awarnye; equivalent to a- + warn.
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Rhymes with awarn
pornborncornwornwarntornborneswornbournethornhorneunbornrebornmournscornmornadornforlornfreebornpeppercornWestbourneshornlornmourne
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APA
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MLA
“awarn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awarn. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “awarn,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awarn.
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