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verb

Alarm v. t. (past & past part. alarmed; pres. part. alarming)

To call to arms for defense; to give notice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.

To keep in excitement; to disturb.

To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear. "Alarmed by rumors of military preparation."

adjective

Alarming adj. Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. Alarmingly, adv.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Alarming" Quotes from Famous Books

... have been their inclination, because not their interest, to raise questions on the extent of parliamentary rights, or to enfeeble privileges which were the security of their own. Powers evident from necessity, and not suspicious from an alarming mode or purpose in the exertion, would, as formerly they were, be cheerfully submitted to; and these would have been fully sufficient for conservation of unity in the empire, and for directing its wealth to one common centre. Another use has produced other consequences; and a power which refuses ...

— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke

... Blackfoot warriors seized his canoe at once; hands rudely hauled him out, and upon the bank, wrenched his gun from him and tore off all his clothes. It was an alarming welcome. ...

— Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters • Edwin L. Sabin

... sounds gradually ceasing, he continued his walk with greater haste, and only heard the hollow and muffled sound of his own beating heart. At the moment he saw the lights of the chateau, another agonized cry, more shrill and alarming than the first, arose. ...

— Monsieur de Camors, Complete • Octave Feuillet

... Bagwell's communications were certainly alarming, but we had scarcely time to reply to them before we reached the house. When we entered the hall the frown departed from his face like magic, he assumed a thoroughly pleasant manner, and conducted us quickly into the presence of the owner ...

— A Master of Mysteries • L. T. Meade

... and alarming dissensions have arisen between the Northern and the Southern States, concerning the Rights and security of the Rights of the Slaveholding States, and especially their Rights in the common territory of the United States; and whereas, it is eminently desirable and ...

— The Great Conspiracy, Complete • John Alexander Logan

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