alert
/əˈlɝt/ verb B2- To give warning to.
He/she/it alerts · Past alerted · Past participle alerted · -ing form alerting
Verb forms
- Base form
- alert
- He/she/it
- alerts
- Past
- alerted
- Past participle
- alerted
- -ing form
- alerting
From the library
Feet in time, alert and hearty,
Heavily built and massive, there was a suggestion of uncouth physical inertia in the figure, but above this unwieldy frame there was perched a head so masterful in its brow, so alert in its steel-grey, deep-set eyes, so firm in its lips, and so subtle in its play of expression, that after the first glance one forgot the gross body and remembered only the dominant mind.
On these his eager, questioning eyes were fixed, and I saw on his keen, alert face that tightening of the lips, that quiver of the nostrils, and concentration of the heavy, tufted brows which I knew so well.
It was one of my friend’s most obvious weaknesses that he was impatient with less alert intelligences than his own.
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