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: feeling a sense of danger : urgently worried, concerned, or frightened
I was alarmed to see how sick she looked.
And what followed was not a miracle but a … model of how tough government, cooperative businessmen and a very alarmed public can make a dirty world clean again.—
William Oscar Johnson
William Oscar Johnson2
: equipped with an alarm
an alarmed door
Most exits were locked and alarmed, and employees had to show ID badges when they entered lab buildings.—Jennifer Nagorka
Jennifer NagorkaExamples of alarmed in a Sentence
the Mohawks were the trapper's friends, so he was not the least bit alarmed at the sight of the band of Mohawk hunters
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
What’s alarming is that so many voters and leaders are not more alarmed by his catch-me-if-you-can extortion.
—Mark Green, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
Europe is alarmed at what the loss of America’s democratic leadership means for stability and progress around the world.
—Elizabeth Shackelford, Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2025
The model indicators of severe weather also have many of us alarmed.
—Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Alarmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alarmed. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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