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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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And Ewan McGregor looks alarmed.
—Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
It’s set in the remote village of Hope Harbor, near the Demilitarized Zone, where alarmed locals alert the outpost police chief to sightings of a tiger on the outskirts of town.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
The fence is 8 feet tall and topped with barbed wire and alarmed.
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—Hannah Richter, Scientific American, 7 May 2026
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Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
It’s set in the remote village of Hope Harbor, near the Demilitarized Zone, where alarmed locals alert the outpost police chief to sightings of a tiger on the outskirts of town.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
The fence is 8 feet tall and topped with barbed wire and alarmed.
—Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 12 May 2026
Erin McClymont’s laboratory has six kitchen freezers, each alarmed.
—Hannah Richter, Scientific American, 7 May 2026
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 21 May. 2026.
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