Definition of alarm

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Alarm (n.) Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise..

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Trepidation :: Trepidation (n.) Hence, a state of terror or alarm; fear; confusion; fright; as, the men were in great trepidation..
Alarmedly :: Alarmedly (adv.) In an alarmed manner.
Alarm :: Alarm (n.) Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
Outcry :: Outcry (n.) A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor..
Bugbear :: Bugbear (v. t.) To alarm with idle phantoms.
Huer :: Huer (n.) One who cries out or gives an alarm; specifically, a balker; a conder. See Balker..
Mortality :: Mortality (n.) The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming..
Alarm :: Alarm (n.) A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy..
Alarm :: Alarm (v. t.) To keep in excitement; to disturb.
Fray :: Fray (v. t.) To frighten; to terrify; to alarm.
Affrightment :: Affrightment (n.) Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm.
Frighten :: Frighten (v. t.) To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink..
Alarm :: Alarm (n.) A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum..
Flee :: Flee (v. i.) To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive..
Affright :: Affright (v. t.) To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm.
Floccillation :: Floccillation (n.) A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases..
Stound :: Stound (n.) A sudden, severe pain or grief; peril; alarm..
Startle :: Startle (v. t.) To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise..
Alarum :: Alarum (n.) See Alarm.
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