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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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This is nothing to be alarmed over.
—Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 3 Oct. 2025
China, in particular, has in recent years alarmed Washington with its rapid progress in chip and AI technologies, prompting the blacklisting of Huawei in 2019 and hundreds of others in subsequent years.
—John Liu, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
This has alarmed countries around the globe, which need shipping lanes to remain free and open for trade.
—Susannah Patton, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2025
But other times, a lot of the expressions that people interpret in the film as scared and alarmed or vexed by the invisible forces are the results of things on set that are just bizarre and kind of hilarious.
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2025
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Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 3 Oct. 2025
China, in particular, has in recent years alarmed Washington with its rapid progress in chip and AI technologies, prompting the blacklisting of Huawei in 2019 and hundreds of others in subsequent years.
—John Liu, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
This has alarmed countries around the globe, which need shipping lanes to remain free and open for trade.
—Susannah Patton, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2025
But other times, a lot of the expressions that people interpret in the film as scared and alarmed or vexed by the invisible forces are the results of things on set that are just bizarre and kind of hilarious.
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for alarmed
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“Alarmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alarmed. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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