Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To warn beforehand; give previous notice; forewarn.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb rare To warn beforehand; to forewarn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
warn beforehand ; toforewarn .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
pre- + warn
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Examples
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"I just can't imagine how any kind of human assault could get through screens and prewarn systems, not without leaving at least a hint of how it had happened."
Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980
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Humanity_Cat: Before I start, I must prewarn that I have just recently started reading your Hetalia blog, so some parts of this are kind of smooshed together … ..
Anime Nano! 2009
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But give the image consultant some credit, even if her psychic abilities didn't help prewarn that his reversal on Afghanistan ( "I was against set time lines before I was for them!") would result in some blow-back.
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