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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
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Examples 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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Appling-Pooler says these groups are most alarmed by how this program is being rushed into existence.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 8 May 2024
And more conservative families have found themselves at odds over Ukraine, with some alarmed about the threat of Russian aggression and others more perturbed by U.S. involvement in an expensive foreign war.
—Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
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Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 8 May 2024
And more conservative families have found themselves at odds over Ukraine, with some alarmed about the threat of Russian aggression and others more perturbed by U.S. involvement in an expensive foreign war.
—Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
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“Alarmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alarmed. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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