Telling and Warn

Telling

Telling adjective - Having the power to persuade.

Warn and telling are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Warn" instead a verb "Telling".

Nearby Words: tell, teller, telly

Warn

Warn verb - To give notice to beforehand especially of danger or risk.

Telling and warn are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Telling" with "Warn", this verbs are similar.

Nearby Words: warning, warned

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • In Sweet Silver Blues, Morley pretends to be telling Garrett a joke, so he can warn him that their campsite is being watched.
  • Not Now, Kiddo aka: Not Now Kid In the finale episode of Blake's 7, Slave repeated tries to warn the crew that the ship is about to be attacked, but Orac keeps telling him to shut up.
  • Inevitable Waterfall Owl has his back to the waterfall, and is so busy telling Piglet a story that he's oblivious to the latter's attempts to warn him.
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