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: feeling a sense of danger : urgently worried, concerned, or frightened
I was alarmed to see how sick she looked.
And what followed was not a miracle but a … model of how tough government, cooperative businessmen and a very alarmed public can make a dirty world clean again.—
William Oscar Johnson
William Oscar Johnson2
: equipped with an alarm
an alarmed door
Most exits were locked and alarmed, and employees had to show ID badges when they entered lab buildings.—Jennifer Nagorka
Jennifer NagorkaExamples of alarmed in a Sentence
the Mohawks were the trapper's friends, so he was not the least bit alarmed at the sight of the band of Mohawk hunters
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Now less alarmed and more reflective, Alaina sees the letters as relics of the house's strange past.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025
Mahoney, according to court documents, grew alarmed that her fiancé had seemingly disappeared – eventually going to the home and spotting McGeeney's red Ford F-150 pickup truck parked outside the residence.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2025
But before the deal was finalized, council members grew alarmed that the company did not seem to have the necessary equipment or subcontracts in place as Super Bowl LIX and the annual Mardi Gras celebrations loomed.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 July 2025
That’s exactly what happened, briefly, last week after investors grew alarmed that Trump could be moving towards firing Powell.
—Matt Egan, CNN Money, 22 July 2025
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025
Mahoney, according to court documents, grew alarmed that her fiancé had seemingly disappeared – eventually going to the home and spotting McGeeney's red Ford F-150 pickup truck parked outside the residence.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2025
But before the deal was finalized, council members grew alarmed that the company did not seem to have the necessary equipment or subcontracts in place as Super Bowl LIX and the annual Mardi Gras celebrations loomed.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 July 2025
That’s exactly what happened, briefly, last week after investors grew alarmed that Trump could be moving towards firing Powell.
—Matt Egan, CNN Money, 22 July 2025
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“Alarmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alarmed. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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