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warn·ing

(wōrn'ing),
A strong cautionary advice about possible dangers or contraindications in activity or pharmacy.
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warn·ing

(wōrn'ing)
Strong cautionary advice about possible dangers or contraindications in health-care-related activity or pharmacy.
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"Sir," interposed Blaisois, "I warn you that I can only swim in rivers."
If I am going to warn him I might as well get the beastly job over for I have little stomach to talk with the brute at all."
Morning had hardly dawned when the Fairy awoke the Prince, and giving him the glass axe again she told him to cut up all the wood he had felled the day before, and to put it in bundles ready for firewood; at the same time she warned him once more against approaching or speaking a word to the black girl if he met her in the wood.
And so it was that our rage against Red-Eye was soothed away by art, and we screamed the wild choruses of the hee-hee council until the night warned us of its terrors, and we crept away to our holes in the rocks, calling softly to one another, while the stars came out and darkness settled down.
"His father has warned him against Magdalen Vanstone," she said, repeating the passage in Mrs.
Wierzbicka (1987: 177-178) states that the versatility of the verb 'warn' finds expression in a wide range of syntactic patterns which can be used to make a warning.
While there is no duty to make a product "idiot proof," there is a duty to warn against reasonably foreseeable risks.
He prefaced these iconic words with: "I warn you that you will have pain - when healing and relief depend upon payment.
Indeed, minutes after it passed SB 86, the Senate passed SB 121, which would amend the state WARN Act, which would mean that certain employers would no longer have to give any warning to its workers before shutting a facility down or laying off large numbers of workers.
Using pictures to warn consumers about the negative impact of tobacco on health is more effective than simply placing a written warning on the packs, Kucuk underlined.
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