present participle of alarm

causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening

The raising of needless alarms.

One who alarms; one who sounds the alarm. / (US, in combination) A multialarm fire of a specified number of alarms.

(transitive) To call to arms for defense / (transitive) To give (someone) notice of approaching danger / (transitive) To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.

A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. / Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.

Having an alarm fitted. / Worried; anxious; panicky. / 8: Thomas, the groom, in the act of drinking, put down the jug alarmed before his master. Thomas’s master felt the honour keenly.

simple past tense and past participle of alarm

plural of alarm

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alarm