Crossword clues for alarmed
alarmed
- Worried article gets harmed when taken across river
- Weapon smuggled in dodgy deal making one this?
- Warned about danger of gangster carrying gun?
- Frightened, scared
- Frightened by gangster with gun
- Uneasy about a student with guns
- Protected, in a way
- Freaked out
- Taken aback
- Far from calm
- Protected, as a home
- Very concerned
- Quite anxious
- Protected from burglars
- Not at all collected
- Like many modern cars
- Filled with fear
- Extremely concerned
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alarm \A*larm"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alarmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Alarming.] [Alarm, n. Cf. F. alarmer.]
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.
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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.
--Macaulay.
Alarmed \A*larmed"\, a. Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty.
The white pavilions rose and fell
On the alarmed air.
--Longfellow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"disturbed by prospects of peril," 1640s, past participle adjective from alarm (v.).
Wiktionary
1 Having an alarm fitted. 2 worried; anxious; panicky. v
(en-past of: alarm)
WordNet
adj. experiencing a sudden sense of danger
Usage examples of "alarmed".
Barbarian chiefs, alarmed and admonished by the fate of their companions, prepared to encounter, in a decisive battle, the victorious forces of the lieutenant of Valentinian.
More alarmed than ever, Alec drew him to the bunk and made him sit down again.
An enthusiast, named Dorotheus, alarmed the fears, and restored the confidence, of the emperor, by a prophetic assurance, that the German heretic, after assaulting the gate of Blachernes, would be made a signal example of the divine vengeance.
The hour being now late, it was singular that any persons should be astir, and Trusty Dick, naturally alarmed by the circumstance, at first thought of turning back.
When the Balkan States attacked Turkey in 1911, in the advent of the First World War, the Italian Government shocked and alarmed the sedate world of those days by leaping across to Tripoli and beginning its conquest.
Large heads, broad backs, beards which would reach to their protruding navels if not whipped away by wind, faces neither grim nor alarmed but intent and determined, the Bandies came at the gallop.
The most patient Reader, who computes that three ponderous volumes have been already employed on the events of four centuries, may, perhaps, be alarmed at the long prospect of nine hundred years.
Francesca looked proud but alarmed, Andrew confused, Bitten preoccupied.
The captain had already got one foot in the wherry, and the watermen, equally alarmed with himself, were trying to push off, when the invaders came up, and, springing into the boat, took possession of the oars, sending Bludder floundering into the Thames, where he sunk up to the shoulders, and stuck fast in the mud, roaring piteously for help.
He appears out of nowhere just in front of Broadtail, sounding alarmed.
Alarmed by the noise that Brye made, Margaret turned as soon as she neared the side stairs.
The emperor was not a little alarmed by a revolution at the Ottoman porte, until the new sultan despatched a chiaus to Vienna, with an assurance that he would give no assistance to the malcontents of Hungary.
Grandpa became alarmed and decided that Chib was confusing fantasy with reality.
It seems that poor Jenny, having heard of the luminations that were lighted up through the country on the ending of the Popish Bill, had, with Meg, travelled by themselves into Glasgow, where they had gathered or begged a stock of candles, and coming back under the cloud of night, had surprised and alarmed the whole clachan, by lighting up their window in the manner that I have described.
General Cuesta was so alarmed at his position that he sent word to Sir Arthur he intended to leave Talavera that evening, and join the British army at Orepesa, in order to assist it in repelling Soult.