alarm
/əˈlɑɹm/ verb B1- To call to arms for defense.
- To give (someone) notice of approaching danger or necessary action; to rouse to vigilance; to put on the alert. · The sudden drop in temperature should alarm you into taking precautions.· Her illness started to alarm the doctors, who ordered more tests.
- To produce a warning of approaching danger or necessary action; to emit a signal intended to rouse a recipient to vigilance or put them on the alert.
- To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear. · The loud bang in the hallway seemed to alarm everyone in the building.
- To keep in excitement; to disturb.
He/she/it alarms · Past alarmed · Past participle alarmed · -ing form alarming
Verb forms
- Base form
- alarm
- He/she/it
- alarms
- Past
- alarmed
- Past participle
- alarmed
- -ing form
- alarming
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Alice was just beginning to think to herself, “Now, what am I to do with this creature when I get it home?” when it grunted again, so violently, that she looked down into its face in some alarm.
“I’m afraid I don’t know one,” said Alice, rather alarmed at the proposal.
Mamma has been so alarmed.
This Job’s comforting seemed neither to offend nor to alarm Marilla.
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