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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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Amanda Hernandez, Baltimore Sun, 24 Mar. 2025
Europe is alarmed at what the loss of America’s democratic leadership means for stability and progress around the world.
—Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
People in Sweden see these gang shootings and are incredibly alarmed and afraid of them.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
In the wake of the environmental and women’s movements, citizen activists, mothers of children with birth defects and women with breast cancer became alarmed about the threat of cancer linked to pesticides or industrial pollutants.
—Amy Lauren Fairchild, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2025
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“Alarmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alarmed. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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