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[ noun ] fear resulting from the awareness of danger
Synonyms Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)She dashes around in alarm . (Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)When Kate hurried in alarm to tell him to put it out , she saw other dots of flames among the western Virginia hills from the few scattered fires of the faithful . (E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)Although a look of alarm passed_over his face , he did not arrest his movements but disappeared into the shower_room just as the chambermaid emerged from number nine . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
Synonyms Used in print (L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)This in_turn sets_off an alarm , notifying the observers at the station that a tsunami is in progress . The moment the alarm goes_off , information is immediately forwarded to Honolulu , which is the center of the warning system . At 17_:_07 that afternoon ( Greenwich_time ) the shock was recorded by the seismograph alarm in Honolulu . Related terms |
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[ verb ] fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
Examples "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview" "The news of the executions horrified us" Used in print (Francis Pollini, Night....)He stared at it , amazed , alarmed . |
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[ verb ] warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
Synonyms Examples "The empty house alarmed him" "We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries" Used in print (L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)Generally the first salvo of a tsunami is a rather sharp swell , not different enough from an ordinary wave to alarm casual observers . |
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[ noun ] an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
Synonyms Related terms signal horn red_flag burglar_alarm siren fire_alarm foghorn tocsin air_alert torpedo |
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