Definition of Alarm

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Definition of Alarm

Alarm

A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.

Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.

A sudden attack; disturbance; broil.

Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.

A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum.

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.

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

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Alarm Quotations

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Pablo Picasso

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
James Madison

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.
Everett Dirksen

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
Gore Vidal

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
David Foster Wallace

It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.
Graham Chapman

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
Elizabeth Bowen

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.
Christopher Hitchens

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.
Christopher Hitchens

Alarm Translations

alarm in Danish is alarm
alarm in Dutch is alarmeren, aanslaan, alarm slaan
alarm in French is alarmez, alarment, alarme, alarmer, alarmons
alarm in German is beunruhigen, Alarm, alarmieren, Sorge, Alarm {m}
alarm in Italian is allarme, alarmo
alarm in Latin is concutio
alarm in Portuguese is alarme
alarm in Spanish is alarma
alarm in Swedish is oroa, larm, alarm

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