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alarm
What does alarm mean?
alarm (noun): sudden surprise with fear or terror caused by the apprehension of danger; a feeling of heightened alertness to risk.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use alarm in a sentence?
- His actions caused alarm among all the other people in the store, who hurried to leave. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce alarm?
/əˈlɑɹm/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does alarm come from?
From Middle English alarme, alarom, borrowed from Middle French alarme, itself from Old Italian all'arme! (“to arms!, to the weapons!”), ultimately from Latin arma (“arms, weapons”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of alarm?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “alarm” mean?
one of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation
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the branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy
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a grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied
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sudden surprise with fear or terror caused by the apprehension of danger; a feeling of heightened alertness to risk
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Which word is closest in meaning to “alarm”?
number
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season
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dismay
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school
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