~ (of sb/sth / of doing sth) (used only in infinitives and in orders) if you tell sb to beware, you are warning them that sb/sth is dangerous and that they should be careful:
[V] Motorists have been warned to beware of icy roads. * Beware of saying anything that might reveal where you live. * [VN] It's a great place for swimming, but beware dangerous currents. [also V-ing]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for beware is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is beware a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, beware is tagged as verb.
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