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A set of bells, often in a bell tower, sometimes operated by means of a keyboard
Plural for a visible or audible sign or sound that warns of danger
“It makes no sense in having a noisy alarm when your next-door neighbor cannot hear it, or when the only person who can hear the alarm is not always at home.”
Plural for a warning or notice about impending danger
“Maybe he would raise the alarm when John failed to show for his luncheon appointment.”
Plural for an anxious awareness of danger
“Their cries became stained with alarm and horror at the departing children.”
Plural for a great feeling or state of being sad or distressed
Plural for clock that wakes sleeper
Plural for the sound of a buzzer or telephone
Plural for a warning that indicates an emergency situation
Plural for any imagined fear or threat, or a fear presumed larger than it really is
Plural for a cry made as a summons or to attract someone's attention
To frighten or cause fear in
“He had heard a name that scared him as much as that of a dead man's ghost would alarm a timid traveler.”
To bother or cause unease to one's mental or emotional state
“He saw no need to alarm her with the news that the would-be killer had made another attempt on his life.”
To offend, shock or outrage
“Atwood deliberately sets out to disgust and alarm her readers by offering graphic descriptions of dead and dying bodies and rotting corpses in her trilogy.”
To warn in advance
To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something)
To state one's intention to take hostile and retributive action against someone
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