BEWARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beware mean? 

• BEWARE (verb)
  The verb BEWARE has 1 sense:

1. be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to

  Familiarity information: BEWARE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEWARE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

beware; mind

Context example:

Beware of telephone salesmen

Hypernyms (to "beware" is one way to...):

look out; watch; watch out (be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Dearest Catherine, beware how you give your heart.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Beware of scammers who call you and say they need access to your computer to fix a bug in a program. Hang up!

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Beware how you meddle with him, or you'll have to deal with me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Out of pity to me and yourself, put your finger on my pulse, feel how it throbs, and—beware!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But beware of what?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But beware.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He has promised to be very good today, and he can be perfectly elegant if he likes, returned Amy, and gliding away to warn Hercules to beware of the dragon, which warning caused him to haunt the old lady with a devotion that nearly distracted her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But the young man refused to do it: so the fox said, “I will at any rate give you good counsel: beware of two things; ransom no one from the gallows, and sit down by the side of no river.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Man! You may hate, but beware!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)