alarm
uh lorm
- n fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- n a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
- n an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
- n a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time
- v fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
- v warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
The empty house alarmed him
- What thief has ever been deterred by those unendurable car alarms? They're a crime in themselves.
- When I asked if these alarms meant chemicals had been detected, I was told that the chemical alarms had malfunctioned.
- A new kind of burglar alarm, just patented last week, has already put a crimp in the burglar business.