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Also see: call
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
alarm/əˈlɑːm/
▶noun
- 1 anxious or frightened awareness of danger.
■ a warning of danger.
- 2 a warning sound or device.
- 1 frighten or disturb.
- 2 (be alarmed) be fitted or protected with an alarm.
– derivatives
alarming adjective,
alarmingly adverb.
alarming adjective,
alarmingly adverb.
– origin ME (as exclam. meaning ‘to arms!’): from OFr. alarme, from Ital. allarme, from all' arme!

