Alarmed

Definition: Alarmed

Alarmed

Adjective

1. Experiencing a sudden sense of danger.

Date "alarmed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Synonym: Alarmed

Synonym: Afraid. (additional references)

Crosswords: Alarmed

English words defined with "alarmed": alarm, Alarmable, Alarmedly, alert ♦ Bitis arietans ♦ cark ♦ disorder, disquiet, distract ♦ Forfered ♦ Mastigoproctus giganteus ♦ perturb, puff adder ♦ Squawking thrush ♦ trouble ♦ unhinge ♦ vinegarroon. (references)

Specialty definitions using "alarmed": Abessa, Amyclaean Silence ♦ Clorinda ♦ Quack Doctor ♦ Rain ♦ Singing Apple, Street. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I I I'm fairly alarmed here. (Jurassic Park; writing credit: Michael Crichton) Now, when I remove the bandages, don't be alarmed by the total stranger staring back at you. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. (Airplane!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker) Do not be alarmed. I'm going to coordinate an unusual maneuver with this aircraft. (Final Descent; writing credit: Robert P. Davis; Roger Young) Please don't be alarmed. I am only attempting to break into the safe. (Thank You, Mr. Moto; writing credit: Wyllis Cooper; Norman Foster)
Lyrics	If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, Don't be alarmed now, ("Stairway to Heaven"; performing artist: Led Zeppelin)
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Domain	Title
Books	Absolutely nothing to get alarmed about (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Ades: Asyla, These Premises Are Alarmed, etc. / Rattle, et al (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The treasury-hen alarmed.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Play	Caption
	Afraid; alarmed; apprehensive; blanched; dismayed; distressed; frightened; horrified; intimidated; nervous; panic-stricken; petrified; run scared; scared; scared stiff; shocked; spooked; startled; stunned; suspicious; terrified; terror-stricken; timid; ti.
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Author	Quotation
Lord Byron	So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.
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Author	Date	Quotation
Winston S. Churchill	1946	Turkey and Persia are both profoundly alarmed and disturbed at the claims which are being made upon them and at the pressure being exerted by the Moscow Government. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
John F. Kennedy	1961	But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course--both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war. (reference)
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Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	She believed she had been foolish, but it had alarmed her, and she had been within half a minute of sending for Mr. Perry.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He appeared to be alarmed, and asked to be informed as soon as Monsieur Madeleine came.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	The tenant men looked up alarmed.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		However, parents should not become too alarmed if their child has one or more of these factors. (references)
		With a steady motion, pull the tick's body away from the skin. The tick's mouthparts may remain in the skin, but do not be alarmed. (references)
Business		Several serious accidents causing the death of construction workers have alarmed the development community on the dangers and risks involved. (references)
Economic History	Albania	Anarchy in early 1997, as a result of the pyramid schemes, alarmed the world and prompted intensive international mediation. (references)
	China	In 1998, the authorities - alarmed by the Asian financial crisis - took steps to reduce financial risk in the banking system. (references)
	Indonesia	Fretilin's ascent in an area contiguous to Indonesian territory alarmed the Indonesian Government, which regarded it as a threatening movement. (references)
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
George Will	I'm not alarmed by this. This is actually traditional. It's been used in almost all of America's declared wars. And we have just sort of stopped declaring wars in modern times and this is a war.
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"Alarmed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 50.85% of the time. "Alarmed" is used about 528 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	50.85%	269	17,948
Lexical Verb (past tense)	23.82%	126	28,512
Adjective (general or positive)	22.68%	120	29,358
Noun (proper)	2.65%	14	93,893
Total	100.00%	528	N/A

Expressions using "alarmed": be alarmed ♦ become alarmed. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "alarmed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		alarmohem (be alarmed, boggle, flap). (various references)

Arabic		‏مروع (appalling, awful, dreadful, frightened, frightening, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrific, horrified, horrifying, macabre, panic stricken, scared, shocked, shocking, startled, startling, terrified, terrifying, terror stricken, terrorized). (various references)

Chinese		报警 (Alarming, alerting), 怛 (distressed, grieved, shocked). (various references)

Danish		rædsom (abysmal, dismayed, dreadful, dumbfounded, gruesome, horrible, put out of countenance, terrible), forfærdelig (abysmal, dismayed, dreadful, dumbfounded, gruesome, horrible, put out of countenance, terrible). (various references)

Dutch		verbluffend (dismayed, dumbfounded, phenomenal, put out of countenance), schrikkelýk (dismayed, dumbfounded, put out of countenance), schrikbarend (dismayed, dumbfounded, put out of countenance), ontzettend (dismayed, dumbfounded, put out of countenance). (various references)

Finnish		hätääntynyt (anxious, startled). (various references)

French		alarmés, alarmées, alarmé, alarmèrent, alarma. (various references)

German		aufgeschreckt (scared, startled), alarmiert. (various references)

Hebrew		מזועזע (shaken, shocked). (various references)

Hungarian		megrémül vmi miatt (to be alarmed at, to be alarmed at sg). (various references)

Icelandic		hryllilegur (abhorrent, abominable, abysmal, alien, awful, dismayed, dreadful, dumbfounded, gruesome, hideous, horrible, put out of countenance, terrible). (various references)

Italian		allarmare (alarm, alarm actuation, alarm transmission, alerting, become alarmed, worry). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�'ぐ (to be alarmed, to be annoying, to be excited, to be troublesome, to clamor, to kick up a fuss, to make a noise, to make merry, to make noise). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		さわぐ (to be alarmed, to be annoying, to be excited, to be troublesome, to clamor, to kick up a fuss, to make a noise, to make merry, to make noise). (various references)

Korean		경보하�". (various references)

Manx		scoaghit (frightened, horrified, intimidated), fo aggle (aghast, awe-stricken, terror-stricken). (various references)

Norwegian		forferdelig (abysmal, dismayed, dreadful, dumbfounded, gruesome, horrible, horrifying, put out of countenance, terrible). (various references)

Pig Latin		alarmeday

Romanian		alarmat (disquieted, troubled, uneasy), îngrijorat (anxious, auxious, careful, concerned, disquiet, restless, sorrowful, thoughtful, troubled). (various references)

Russian		тревожить встревоженный, встревоженный (disturbed, troubled, uneasy), обеспокоенный (concerned). (various references)

Spanish		alarmado. (various references)

Swedish		alarmerad, orolig (anxious, apprehensive, concerned, fussy, gassy, restless, turbulent, uneasy, unsettled, worried, yeasty), oroad, hemsk (abysmal, agonizing, atrocious, awful, bloodcurdling, creepy, dire, dismal, dismayed, dreadful, dreary, dumbfounded, eerie, eery, fell, frantic, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, grisly, gruesome, hair raising, harrowing, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, put out of countenance, terrible, terrific, uncanny, weird, wicked), förfärlig (abominable, abysmal, awful, dismayed, dreadful, dumbfounded, frightful, gruesome, horrible, perishing, put out of countenance, terrible). (various references)

Turkish		panik (panic, panic stricken, panic struck, panicky, stampede, tailspin), paniğe kapılmış (panic stricken, panic struck, panicky). (various references)

Turkmen		rahatsyzlanmak (anxious, be upset). (various references)
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Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	timefactus, trepidus. (various references)
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Misspellings
	"Alarmed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aalsmeer, alame, alarme, alarmes, Altarnum, Mallarme. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "alarmed" (pronounced ulÄ"rmd)
4	-Ä" r m d	armed, charmed, disarmed, farmed, harmed, unarmed, unharmed.
3	-r m d	conformed, deformed, formed, informed, malformed, misinformed, outperformed, performed, reformed, stormed, swarmed, transformed, unformed, uniformed, uninformed, warmed.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-l-m-r"
	-1 letter: dermal, marled, medlar.
	-2 letters: alarm, alder, areal, armed, damar, derma, drama, dream, lader, lamed, lamer, madre, malar, medal, realm.
	-3 letters: alae, alar, alma, alme, area, dale, dame, dare, deal, dear, derm, dram, earl, lade, lama, lame, lard, lead, lear, maar, made, male, mare, marl, mead, meal, meld, merl, rale, read, real, ream.
	-4 letters: aal.
	-5 letters: aa.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-l-m-r"
	+1 letter: alarumed, alderman.
	+2 letters: admirable, airmailed, diametral, dreamland, ealdorman, marmalade, marshaled, melodrama.
	+3 letters: acrylamide, aldermanic, alderwoman, calamander, camelopard, dermatomal, dreamlands, hallmarked, loadmaster, mainlander, maltreated, marmalades, marshalled, meadowlark, melodramas, mortadella, salamander.
	+4 letters: acrylamides, admiralties, aeromedical, ameliorated, calamanders, camelopards, candelabrum, caramelised, caramelized, declamatory, diametrical, intradermal, lamebrained, loadmasters, mainlanders, meadowlarks, mortadellas, paramedical, salamanders, transdermal.
	+5 letters: agglomerated, candelabrums, daydreamlike, departmental, diagrammable, dramatizable, familiarised, familiarized, holidaymaker, marginalized, materialised, materialized, matriculated, melodramatic, multiwarhead, paramedicals, perambulated, salamandrine.
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