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MUSCOVITE Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Beware of ...

Hi,

If you could tell me what words can serve as alternatives to "beware of" in the following phases:

(1) beware of the dog
(2) beware of falling rocks
(3) beware of pickpockets
(4) Beware. Deep water.
(5) Beware of accidentally (doing smth)...

thanks!
Mus-te
  

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All those are standard warnings. You could say 'Danger of falling rocks' or 'Danger - deep water', but I wouldn't bother changing the others. Rover

— Rover_KE

  • All those are standard warnings.
  • You could say 'Danger of falling rocks' or 'Danger - deep water', but I wouldn't bother changing the others.
  • Rover
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All those are standard warnings.

You could say 'Danger of falling rocks' or 'Danger - deep water', but I wouldn't bother changing the others.

Rover
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There are some alternatives of course... for instance, you could say,"watch out - deep water". Other common words used are 'take heed', 'look out'....
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Thanks Alex,

I understand the versions with "beware of" are all more formal then the alternatives with "watch out", "watch [the steps]", "mind [the door]", "look out")?.

In informal circumstances, which would be the least "lofty" :-) way to warn your friends that say the water is quite deep (or something)?

What I am afraid of is ... using too formal language in very inf
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