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Alarming   /əlˈɑrmɪŋ/   Listen
Alarming

adjective
1.
Frightening because of an awareness of danger.


Alarm

verb
(past & past part. alarmed; pres. part. alarming)
1.
Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised.  Synonyms: appal, appall, dismay, horrify.  "The news of the executions horrified us"
2.
Warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness.  Synonym: alert.  "We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries"



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"Alarming" Quotes from Famous Books



... few francs Adrienne possessed diminished with alarming rapidity. She began to calculate her ways and means once more, and this was no longer done as readily as before. Her own wardrobe would not bear any drain upon it. Early in the indisposition of her grandmother, all of THAT had been sold which she ...
— Autobiography of a Pocket-Hankerchief • James Fenimore Cooper
... King Charles wrote to Napoleon in the tone of ancient friendship; but the answer he received was threatening and mysterious. The utterances which the Emperor let fall in the presence of persons likely to report them at Madrid were even more alarming, and were intended to terrify the Court into the resolution to take flight from Madrid. The capital once abandoned by the King, Napoleon judged that he might safely take everything into his own hands on the pretence of restoring to Spain ...
— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe
... walked on rapidly, but he did not desist. They thought him repulsive. There was something alarming ...
— The Created Legend • Feodor Sologub
... quiet and I was to ask no questions of anybody, you can imagine how much chance I had of doing anything. But if she's at home, it's all right. At sight of you I thought it had proved to be something alarming and that they ...
— Ashton-Kirk, Investigator • John T. McIntyre
... was a great rendezvous for numerous Buller relations. It was, as was the parsonage also, a nest of old domestics, all born in the parish, and it included among its other inmates a ghost, who was called "the Countess," and who took from time to time alarming strolls ...
— Memoirs of Life and Literature • W. H. Mallock


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