Definition of alarm

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Alarm (v. t.) 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.

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Start :: Start (v. t.) To cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as, the hounds started a fox..
Scarefire :: Scarefire (n.) A fire causing alarm.
Balefire :: Balefire (n.) A signal fire; an alarm fire.
Affright :: Affright (v. t.) To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm.
Forfered :: Forfered (p. p. & a.) Excessively alarmed; in great fear.
Frighten :: Frighten (v. t.) To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
Affray :: Affray (v. t.) To startle from quiet; to alarm.
Dismay :: Dismay (v. i.) To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.
Fearful :: Fearful (a.) Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened..
Alarmed :: Alarmed (imp. & p. p.) of Alar.
Alarmist :: Alarmist (n.) One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms..
Repose :: Repose (v. i.) Figuratively, to remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms..
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..
Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal..
Alarming :: Alarming (a.) Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. -- A*larming*ly, adv..
Alarm :: Alarm (v. t.) To keep in excitement; to disturb.
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..
Alarm :: Alarm (v. t.) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
Recover :: Recover (v. i.) To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright..
Diversion :: Diversion (n.) The act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack, alarm, or feint which diverts..
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