alarm
noun
1. fear resulting from the awareness of danger
Similar word(s): consternation, dismay
Definition categories: feeling, fear, fearfulness, fright
2. a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
Definition categories: man–made, device
3. an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
Similar word(s): alarum, alert
Definition categories: communication, sign, signal, signaling
4. a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time
Definition categories: man–made, clock
Sentences with alarm as a noun:
- Arming to answer in a night alarm. --Shakespeare.
- Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. --Joel ii. 1.
- Alarm and resentment spread throughout the camp. --Thomas Babington Macaulay.
- The clockradio is a friendlier version of the cold alarm by the bedside
- You should set the alarm on your watch to go off at seven o'clock.
verb
1. fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
Similar word(s): appal, appall, dismay, horrify
Definition categories: emotion, affright, fright, frighten, scare
2. warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
- The empty house alarmed him
Similar word(s): alert
Definition categories: communication, warn