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alarming
adj. worrisome, foreboding
 
alarm
v. scare, terrify; frighten, intimidate


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Alarm (disambiguation)
Alarm may refer to:Alarm magazine, a music & art magazine based in Chicago, IL. Alarm, a device that gives an audible or visual warning of a problem or conditionALARM, (Air Launched Anti-Radiation Missile) a British anti-radiation missile designed primarily to destroy enemy radars The Alarm, a Welsh alternative rock band, who were most popular in the 1980s"Alarmed", a song by Built to Spill from their 2001 album Ancient Melodies of the Future"Alarm!", phrase said by German U-Boat crews to begin an emergency dive.
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alarming
Adjective
1. causing alarm or fear
(antonym) unalarming
(similar) appalling, dismaying
(attribute) alarm, dismay, consternation

 
alarm
Noun
1. fear resulting from the awareness of danger
(synonym) dismay, consternation
(hypernym) fear, fearfulness, fright
(attribute) alarming
(derivation) dismay, appal, appall, horrify
2. a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
(synonym) warning device, alarm system
(hypernym) device
(hyponym) automobile horn, car horn, motor horn, horn, hooter
3. an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
(synonym) alert, warning signal, alarum
(hypernym) signal, signaling, sign
(hyponym) torpedo
4. a clock that wakes sleeper at preset time
(synonym) alarm clock
(hypernym) clock
Verb
1. fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us"
(synonym) dismay, appal, appall, horrify
(hypernym) frighten, fright, scare, affright
(hyponym) shock
(derivation) alarmist
2. warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness; "The empty house alarmed him"; "We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries"
(synonym) alert
(hypernym) warn
(hyponym) wake
(derivation) dismay, consternation


Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Alarming
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Alarm
  
 
(a.)
Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. -- A*larm"ing*ly, adv.
  

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Chinese idioms explained in EnglishDownload this dictionary
狼烟四起
lang2 yan1 si4 qi3
Smoke of wolf dung rising on all four sides.
War alarms raised everywhere.

 
见怪不怪
jian4 guai4 bu2 guai4
Facing the uncanny with no fears.
Not to be alarmed by a thing that is seemingly strange.


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