alarm
Seed from Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025
Meanings by context
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- definition fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- definition a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
- definition an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
- definition a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time
- definition fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
- definition warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness