Secure
Secure verb - To drive danger or attack away from.
Warn
Warn verb - To give notice to beforehand especially of danger or risk.
Common collocations
| city | secure city | warn city |
Both words in one sentence
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Instead, he ran into a boar... Meaningful Echo: "I did warn you not to trust me." Said by Petyr Baelish when the city watch he had promised to secure for Eddard turns on him.
Source: Literature / A Game of Thrones -
Absurdly Ineffective Barricade: Stiles tried to warn everyone that blocking the door with desks and chairs wouldn't do anything to secure the twenty-foot wall of windows, but gets not now, kiddo'd.
Source: Series / Teen Wolf - This also goes for the zombified Combine soldiers (AKA 'Zombine'); when the pitch of their radio chatter is altered, they can quite clearly be heard saying things like "Necrotics imbound", "Infestation", and "Sector is...not secure...", trying to warn their surviving comrades.
Source: And I Must Scream / Video Games
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