alarmed
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈlɑɹmd/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈlɑːmd/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: alarmed
Verb
alarmed
- simple past tense and past participle of alarm
Adjective
alarmed (not comparable)
- Having an alarm fitted.
- This door is alarmed.
- Worried; anxious; panicky.
- I'm extremely alarmed about the army outside my house.
- 1848-50, William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendeniss, ch 2:
- 8: Thomas, the groom, in the act of drinking, put down the jug alarmed before his master. Thomas’s master felt the honour keenly.
Translations
having an alarm fitted
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worried — see worried