warn someone off (something)

Examples of warn

warn
For the novice, there is danger in the chronological presentation, without warning signals that some theories are more difficult to assimilate than others.
Potential readers of the book should perhaps be warned that the author has not made things easy for them.
While he does not identify specific legislation by name, he was almost certainly warning against recently enacted federal laws.
Almost instantly the new plan was presented: a much closer clinic and earlier times - but there were two warning notes.
Punishments depended on the offence, but she could be warned by the wet-nursing inspection bureau, fined or dismissed.
And warning messages are easily ignored by the programmer.
The opponents warned that the project meant the end of the beach as a popular site of recreation for common people.
Then we have wanted a way to warn jurors that they must not let exaggerated, hyperbolic doubts stand in the way of conviction.
The public needs to be warned about risks involved in consumption of processed meat products, and educated about proper foodhandling and storage.
I warned explicitly for a mystification of particularity and the dangers of a return to mythology.
The children were to create posters warning of the dangers of fireworks.
There is an ancient myth that wild rats guide their young to food, and even warn them of the dangers of poison bait.
Furthermore, he warns us against reducing narration to one genre, since each of the different genres examined has its own developmental course and purpose.
People practising coitus interruptus don't seem to have succumbed to all those terrible nervous complaints against which we are so frequently warned by psychiatrists.
Nineteenth-century usage guides do not advise against the passive, though some do warn writers not to change voice in midsentence.
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