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alarm

An alarm is a signal that something needs attention or a machine that makes the signal. I wake up, without an alarm clock, at seven or eight a.m. People in the restaurant ran out the emergency exit, sounding the alarm. The safety system was known to be defective and had frequently sent out false alarms. The hotel did not have fire alarms or a sprinkler system. A fire in the fry pan set off the smoke alarm. Alarm is a feeling of worry or fear. They watched with some alarm as the speeding car got closer. This is completely natural and no cause for alarm.

alarm

If you alarm someone, you make them feel worried or scared. The school was alarmed by the number of children failing math.

alarm

fear resulting from the awareness of danger a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event (= horrify) 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 (= alert) 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 an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger (= alarm clock) a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time

Synonyms alarm synonyms

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Conjugation alarm conjugation

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alarm · verb

Examples alarm examples

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Simple sentences

Even though the alarm clock went off, I didn't wake up.
In France, we leave alone those who start fires, but we persecute those who sound the alarm.
The alarm has been disabled.
The fire alarm rang.
In case you sleep, set the alarm.
The news caused alarm throughout the village.
This alarm clock gains one minute a day.
I did not want to alarm you.
I didn't want to alarm you.
My alarm clock didn't go off this morning.
I have three alarm clocks so as not to oversleep.
All of a sudden, the fire alarm went off.
The first item he bought was an alarm clock.
The alarm went off at five-thirty.
I overslept because my alarm didn't go off.
The alarm clock wakes me at seven.
The news of the accident caused public alarm.
The alarm sent everyone rushing out of the room.
She went to bed, having set the alarm for seven.
You've got to set the alarm clock before you go to bed.
He set the alarm before going to bed.
Father set the alarm for six o'clock.

Movie subtitles

FIRE ALARM ENDS Thank God for that.
ALARM BEEPS (Shit!
More generally known as a false alarm.
I don't wish to alarm you, Mrs. Waverton, but I don't quite know what we should do.
We are now in possession of duplicate keys to every one of the bank's vaults, as well as combinations to all the safes and plans for all alarm systems.
There's no cause for alarm.
Her condition is not sufficiently serious to be cause for alarm but it is decidedly delicate.
Send out a general alarm.
There is no need for alarm, no cause for alarm.
You just offer them 600-for-1, and this thing will spread like a four-alarm fire.
Sock, why is my alarm clock going off at 4:30 in the morning?
Turns out, he's OK, the whole thing was a false alarm.
I didn't want to sound the alarm by getting too close.
You turned off the burglar alarm, you set the time clock, came back at 12:00 and emptied the boxes.
The burglar alarm was turned off.
All I had to was turn off the alarm and fix the time clock.
Say, what's this? Some new kind of an alarm clock?
There is no need for alarm, no cause for alarm. - I'm all right.
My alarm clock is set for 8:00.
I don't think that as yet there is any reason for alarm.
Sound the alarm.
Send out a general alarm. Throw a dragnet around the city.
This is the alarm.
THERE'S NO NEED FOR ALARM.
These are just Braxton Hicks contractions. More generally known as a false alarm.
What's the meaning of this alarm?
The alarm spread.the jungle flared with fires lighted to drive off the natives black fear.
Alarm!
SUSAN, I HAVE NO WISH TO ALARM YOU, BUT I AM OF OPINION THERE IS A MAN IN THE HOUSE.
THERE'S NO CAUSE FOR ALARM.
Spread a false alarm, that's all.
Of course, you wouldn't want to alarm your wife's niece.
I view with alarm the influence over you of this Bolshevik lady.

News and current affairs

Not only do the remarks of French leaders about recreating a multi-polar world arouse alarm, but recent public opinion polls show a decline in the popularity of the US among Europeans and a desire for more independent policies.
Above all, the rest of the world has looked on with alarm as the US holds more than 600 men at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba without access to family or counsel, and without prospect of an impartial hearing or trial.
But his rather technical discussion (which focused on monetary economics and the gold standard) forged no new consensus among economists, and the news media reported no clear sense of alarm.
Of course, alarm bells have rung before in Saudi Arabia, but the ruling family remained in denial--deniability and repression being the political arts at which the al-Saud excel.
Perhaps no individual has done more to raise the alarm - earning deserved credit for many successes and understanding all too clearly the remaining shortcomings - than James Wolfensohn, the outgoing President of the World Bank.
In defending the Fed's policy, Bernanke had to be careful not to say anything that might overly alarm investors.
None of this swayed the rest of the world, which views the war with disdain and alarm.
So why the high alarm about European appeasement, especially among the neo-conservatives?
Sweden's rejection of the euro already has sounded the alarm.
Should we be watching the French presidential campaign with admiration or alarm?
Global alarm bells might cause pangs of guilt for wealthy Westerners, but they don't give us an adequate understanding of what's going on.
Monti, for example, was among the first to sound the alarm about Italy's dire finances.
But, while Western analysts and Iran's neighbors raise the alarm, the regime's authority is in fact built on insecure foundations.
Iran's rise is causing alarm in the Arab Middle East, particularly in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, but also in Egypt.
The alarm bells should be ringing loud and clear across Asia - an export-led region that cannot afford to ignore repeated shocks to its two largest sources of external demand.
None has reversed course, and any hint that governments might reassert political control over interest rates, as happened recently in India, are met with alarm in financial markets and outrage among economists.
In a series of opinion articles over the last five years, they have repeatedly sounded the alarm that the risks of nuclear weapons outweigh any possible usefulness in today's security environment.
The closer he moves to the EU, the greater the alarm in the Kremlin.
For Beijing's central planners, however, the size of China's industrial base has become a cause for alarm rather than celebration.
Given China's mushrooming military budget and secretiveness, that assertiveness has set off alarm bells among the other countries bordering the South China Sea.
Of the 238 cases, 149 children died in the institutions where they lived rather than in a hospital, raising alarm about why, on the brink of death, a child was not transferred immediately to a hospital intensive-care unit.
The theory's publication at a time of worldwide alarm about double-digit inflation offered central bankers exactly the pretext they needed for desperately unpopular actions.
Just as a few of us warned of impending crisis in the 2003-2006 period, some - including the Bank of International Settlements and the IMF- are sounding the alarm today, but to no avail.
Very few among them (notable exceptions including Nouriel Roubini and Robert Shiller) raised alarm bells about the crisis to come.

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