alarmed
惊慌失措,震惊,惊惶失措,惊恐的
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Definitions
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- : a sudden fear or distressing suspense caused by an awareness of danger; apprehension; fright.
- : any sound, outcry, or information intended to warn of approaching danger: Paul Revere raced through the countryside raising the alarm that the British were coming.
- : an automatic device that serves to call attention, to rouse from sleep, or to warn of fire, smoke, an intruder, etc.
- : a warning sound; signal for attention.
- : Animal Behavior. any sound, outcry, chemical discharge, action, or other signal that functions to draw attention to a potential predator.
- : Fencing. an appeal or a challenge made by a step or stamp on the ground with the advancing foot.
- : Archaic. a call to arms.
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- : to make fearful or apprehensive; distress.
- : to warn of danger; rouse to vigilance and swift measures for safety.
- : to fit or equip with an alarm or alarms, as for fire, smoke, or robbery: to alarm one's house and garage.
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Examples
After a 2016 fire tornado ripped through northern Canada and a firestorm consumed Gatlinburg, Tennessee, he said, “alarm bells started going off” for the insurance industry.
Meanwhile, last month, the WHO raised an alarm that the response to the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the west of the DR Congo is underfunded and facing logistic challenges.
He is one of a number of federal defense attorneys who have been sounding the alarm about conditions at the downtown prison, arguing that people being detained in the facility were being put at risk.
The idea is to make the trail go cold or, better yet, raise false alarms for investigators.
She was early to sound the alarm on the pandemic while also arguing for keeping parks and beaches open.
The early reaction to Shami closing his account is similarly alarmed.
Chernon Bah, co-founder of A World at School, was alarmed by what she witnessed recently in Sierra Leone.
Biologist Mattson is alarmed by the abrupt 2008 rise in grizzly mortality from conflicts both with livestock and hunters.
He saw his mother on the couch and figured she was sleeping, but then he became alarmed.
He had grown even more alarmed when he discovered that her passport was missing.
The expatriated ex-rebels became alarmed by the non-receipt of the indemnity instalment and the news from their homes.
Alice had been wondering what had detained her so long, and by the time she arrived had become very much alarmed.
The sentinels seemed much alarmed, and drew up their carbines as if to shoot.
One fainting-fit succeeded to another; till at last Alphonse began to be seriously alarmed.
A maid, alarmed at the din of breaking glass, entered the room to discover what was the matter.