Word Finder - alarmed

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To call to arms for defense

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To give (someone) notice of approaching danger

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To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.

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To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.

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To keep in excitement; to disturb.

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Having an alarm fitted.

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This door is alarmed.

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Worried; anxious; panicky.

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I'm extremely alarmed about the army outside my house.

It wasn't the distance that alarmed her.

His threats alarmed the Austrian court.

There were sounds that should've alarmed her, the feel of hot tears on her face.

The British government, alarmed by Bonaparte's attempt to intrigue with Tippoo Sahib, put forth all its strength in India and destroyed the power of that ambitious ruler.

When the darkness came, they too began to be alarmed.

Gerasim gazed at the officer with an alarmed and inquiring look.

The lad sprang up alarmed.

This capture so alarmed the national government that a force was sent under the command of Roca to put down the insurrection.

Putnam stayed in the cave so long that his friends began to be alarmed.

Alarmed at the close connexion of Normandy with Flanders, Henry I.

If English is not your native language do not be alarmed.

Effective parents listen and allow the child to vent without becoming alarmed.

Oudh was thus annexed without a blow; but it may be doubted whether the one measure of Lord Dalhousie upon which he looked back himself with the clearest conscience was not the very one that most alarmed native public opinion.

She wasn't sure if she should be grateful or alarmed that he was playing along with her.

The brilliant and enterprising Christian Thomasius brought out periodically, in dialogue form, his Monatsgesprdche (1688-1690), written by himself in the vernacular, to defend his novel theories against the alarmed pedantry of Germany, and, together with Strahl, Buddeus and others, Observationes selectae ad rem litterariam spectantes (1700), written in Latin.

There was talk of instituting a central Italian kingdom with Leopold as king, to form part of a larger Italian federation, but in the meanwhile the grand-duke, alarmed at the revolutionary and republican agitations in Tuscany and encouraged by the success of the Austrian arms, was, according to Montanelli, negotiating with Field-Marshal Radetzky and with Pius IX., who had now abandoned his Liberal tendencies, and fled to Gaeta.

At length, unable to contend any longer against the general and inveterate animosity displayed against him, fearing for the consequences to the monarchy, alarmed at the virulent attacks of the North Briton, and suffering from ill-health, Bute resigned office on the 8th of April.

She objected when King James proposed to marry her to Lord Esme Stuart, whom he had created duke of Lennox, but when the appalling news reached her that Arabella had actually found a lover in Edward Seymour, grandson of Catherine Grey, heiress of the Suffolks, she was so deeply alarmed and indignant that she immediately ordered her imprisonment.

On the 21st of Ajril, the very day when the discussion of the Prussian proposals began in the diet, Austria, alarmed at a threatened attack by Garibaldi on Venetia, began to mobilize in defiance of an agreement just arrived at with Prussia.

The scheme alarmed the Coalition, which saw that universal suffrage might destroy not only the hegemony of the Magyar nobility and gentry in whose hands political power was concentrated, but might, by admitting the non-Magyars to political equality with the Magyars, undermine the supremacy of the Magyar race itself.

A similar judgment may be passed upon those Paulician, Albigensian, Paterine and Epicurean dissenters from the Catholic creed who opposed the phalanxes of orthodoxy with frail imaginative weapons, and alarmed established orders in the state by the audacity of their communistic opinions.

But the Austrasians (fl54,4J) appealed to an illegitimate son of Pippin, Charles Martel, who had escaped from the prison to which Plectrude, alarmed at his prowess, had consigned him, and took him for their leader.

Don't be alarmed unless their feelings last for more than two weeks and begin to affect their sleep, appetite, behavior and school.

Tofu fans, especially vegetarians, who typically eat the off-white, soy-based rectangular blocks of protein in large amounts, were instantly alarmed by the news.

If you've been feeding your pet Nutro dog food, then the recent recalls may have you feeling a bit alarmed.

A class like this is designed to expose and, hopefully, desensitize a dog to a variety of people and situations in order to teach them that there's nothing to be alarmed about.

The FDA's findings revealed nothing for which customers should be alarmed.

From 12 to 18 months, as they start to walk and crawl, children use their attachment figure as a secure base from which to go out and discover the world and as a safe haven to which to return when frightened or alarmed.

Do not be alarmed if a tingling sensation and redness of the scalp occurs upon application, as this is a normal occurrence when using the Scalp Treatment.

Don't be alarmed, but it takes over 90 steps to fold this rose!

If you receive an abnormal result, your doctor will tell you not to be alarmed because further testing may need to be done to make sure the results are actually abnormal.

Do not be alarmed if the dough does not seem to be rising; some buckwheat flours do not rise without significant heat.

Don't be alarmed, however, if you end up paying full price.

As the site suggests, don't be alarmed when you see a different size than the one you ordered on the outside of the box.

Note that the little critter happens to have a very long tail, and it is not detachable - something to keep in mind if you're easily alarmed.

However, if you only have one reference, do not feel alarmed.

Don’t be alarmed by the length of the ingredients and instructions for preparing Beef Wellington; the dish is simple to make, but the preparation steps are time-consuming and labor intensive.

Don't be alarmed by the application process; you can apply online, call a toll-free number listed on the website, or submit your application by postal mail.

For everyone else, however, there really is no reason to be alarmed.

She really alarmed the public with her racy, explicit book Sex, which was released in the midst of a media firestorm.

Phillipe feels responsible for the lady, and is alarmed to find them stalked by a wolf.

Mansr's shoulders shook, and she took his arm, alarmed.

Lana caught his arm, alarmed.

The sailing of Decaen's squadron early in March 1803 had alarmed the British ministers and doubtless confirmed their resolve to have the question of peace or war settled speedily.

But the dissensions of the native Franks and the crusaders made it hopeless to continue the struggle; and Richard was alarmed by the news which reached him of John's intrigues in England and Normandy.

Alarmed at his lengthy absence the people clamoured for "gods" to lead them, and at the instigation of Aaron, they brought their jewelry and made the calf out of it.

The introduction of the India Bill in November 1783 alarmed many vested interests, and offended the king by the provision which gave the patronage of India to a commission to be named by the ministry and removable only by parliament.

In this conjuncture Defoe had really no friends, for the dissenters were as much alarmed at his book as the high-flyers were irritated.

This new coalition naturally alarmed Sparta, which at once made overtures to Athens on the ground of their common danger from Thebes.

Its most extraordinary feature consisted in the provision for lodging the executive authority in the hands of a president for life, without responsibility and with power to nominate his successor, a proposal which alarmed the friends of liberty, and excited lively apprehensions amongst the republicans of Buenos Aires and Chile; whilst in Peru, Bolivar was accused of a design to unite into one state Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, and to render himself perpetual dictator of the confederacy.