0 to tell someone that something unpleasant is going to happen:
[ + (that) ] The employees had been forewarned (that) the end-of-year financial results would be poor.
He gives no forewarning whatever of the economic and ecological problems that face the world of the twenty-first century (the age he claimed to 'predetermine').
Through astrology one could be forewarned of the exact time of his coming.
If 'a criminal trial is not a game', then the prosecution should not be given a 'sporting chance' by being forewarned of the weaknesses in its case.
To be forewarned is to be forearmed.
We sent letters to everyone in the treatment groups to forewarn them of the imminent contact.
If not forewarned, it is impossible to distinguish with the naked eye between a piece of meat and another piece of meat that has been bound together with thrombin.
European history forewarned us of the following sentence: state-controlled centralism destroys wealth and social welfare when its aim is not to support the economy, but to mould its character.
I only wish to forewarn the other groups that we shall be asking for this postponement of the vote.
