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Definition of "forewarn" [fore•warn]

  • To warn in advance. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "forewarn" in a sentence
  • "Finally since you were notified by someone on the committee concerned enough to ask I will take this moment to forewarn which is forearmed."
  • "I'm just gonna forewarn them that it's everybody else that's going to be begging for their job back."
  • "I couldn't give a damn if the Bible can predict the next president and I don't need the Torah to forewarn me that I'm about to become nuclear melba toast."