(n.) A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
(n.) Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
(n.) A sudden attack; disturbance; broil.
(n.) Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
(n.) A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum.
(v. t.) To call to arms for defense; to give notice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.
(v. t.) To keep in excitement; to disturb.
(v. t.) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
Example Sentences:
(1) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(2) Which must make yesterday's jobs figures doubly alarming for the coalition.
(3) Luciana Berger, Labour shadow secretary for mental health, also expressed alarm.
(4) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
(5) Not only was an alarming amount of fissile material going missing at the company, Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (Numec), but it had been visited by a veritable who's-who of Israeli intelligence, including Rafael Eitan, described by the firm as an Israeli defence ministry "chemist", but, in fact, a top Mossad operative who went on to head Lakam.
(6) Talking ahead of a UN climate summit in Peru next month, Kim said he was alarmed by World Bank-commissioned research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, which said that as a result of past greenhouse gas emissions the world is condemned to unprecedented weather events.
(7) The most egregious failure was by WHO in the delay in sounding the alarm,” said Prof Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute.
(8) "We are alarmed to see the government is even wavering about continuing its programme of tracing, testing and destroying infected young ash trees.
(9) Privacy advocates argue this reflects an alarming ease of access, even though agencies should make every effort to ensure the invasion of privacy is justified by the importance to the public of solving a crime or recovering money.
(10) There was no looking back and as Hardouvelis nervously looked on – at times relieved, at times alarmed – it was quite clear that there was no stepping back either.
(11) Suffice to say, it was a long, difficult haul with various scares and alarms along the way.
(12) Severe overloading can increase microdamage alarmingly, its repair by BMUs too, and can cause woven bone formation, anarchic resorption and a regional acceleratory phenomenon.
(13) The literature on the possible risk of myasthenia gravis complicating pregnancy and delivery is sparse and partly contradictory but some of the reports on the number of perinatal and neonatal deaths are alarming.
(14) The second cause for alarm is more real – the insistence on imposing exemplary, or punitive, damages on those who don't join the regulator (and, in some circumstances, even those who do).
(15) The stimulus-response combination was classified into 4 categories according to SDT response: hits, misses, false alarms (FAs) and correct rejections (CRs).
(16) The interval distributions of neurons in isolated cerebral cortex resembled those of neurons in the intact cortex of an alarmed animal.
(17) The clinicians were asked to choose from a list the device that produced the alarm.
(18) On Monday, the interior minister, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, said the alarm had been raised immediately, but local media have cited prison sources saying it took half an hour for police to begin the search for Guzmán.
(19) The bank's speciality in debt instruments such as mortgage-related securities caused alarm as early as last summer.
(20) in the US the last ten years have witnessed an alarming recrudescence involving vast strata of the population and especially children, although this is masked by the paucity of reports, as is the case also in Italy.
Alarmist
Definition:
(n.) One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of them got a gold medal in medicine, for being top of the year, but they dropped out for exactly these reasons.” These are not alarmist stories being spread by campaigners.
(2) This can contribute to mitigating the dangerously polarising and alarmist discourse that views migrants as a threat to a society and its public order.” The senior European human rights official says he is worried that this “dominant political discourse which is tainted by alarmism” has led to the unsurprising outcome that the public consider immigration as the most important issue facing the country ahead of health, crime or the economy.
(3) The "never-worked families" hypothesis is convenient for ministers and alarmist columnists, but is it in any way true?
(4) A leaked letter from the company's general manager, Stanley Lewandowski, said: "We believe it is necessary to support the scientific community that is willing to stand up against the alarmists."
(5) A few years ago, libertarians who warned that the advocates of punitive taxes and restrictions on smokers would only move on to bully others were dismissed as alarmists.
(6) They are the only couple from the state dinner to get their picture on the front page of the Washington Post, and they were the source of a mix of merriment at their daring and alarmist speculation on the morning television shows about what would have happened if they had been Islamist extremists.
(7) Only his heart, not his head, could write that Toby Young was "lucky" not to wind up in a locked psychiatric ward after smoking cannabis, for even the most alarmist interpretation of the medical data does not declare psychosis the most likely consequence.
(8) Despite the fact that Wall Street and the City of London seemed to be dominated by headstrong young men with far too much money and far too little sense, the chance of a catastrophic blow-out was viewed as alarmist nonsense.
(9) On Saturday we wondered if we would find armed guards outside the synagogue and alarmist talk within of a palpable threat, reaching back to the persecutions of history.
(10) Its job would be to test alarmist announcements against stringent statistical probability.
(11) It is the kind of thing alarmists have been predicting for years.
(12) I don't think I am being alarmist, I'm just thinking of the worst-case scenario."
(13) It's probably not something I'd say myself because it has a red-baiting or alarmist tone to it.
(14) Repeatedly through the 90s, governments at the state and city level enacted laws and policies designed to stamp out what concerned parents and alarmist newspapers typically called "drug supermarkets".
(15) Europe’s human rights commissioner has accused David Cameron and Theresa May of “scaling up alarmist rhetoric” on migration, portraying migrants as a “threat to UK society” and fuelling a xenophobic climate in Britain.
(16) They can also affect power distribution grids on the ground and the electronics of satellites, but recent claims that solar storms could cause a "global Katrina" seem unduly alarmist, unless power and satellite companies have been incredibly negligent over the past decade.
(17) It also forged close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation inside Ariel Sharon's office in Israel specifically to bypass Mossad and provide the Bush administration with more alarmist reports on Saddam's Iraq than Mossad was prepared to authorise.
(18) The alarmist reports, carried by the Xinhua news agency and the People's Daily website, were in stark contrast to the congratulatory tone of most previous domestic coverage of the project, which was planned for flood control along the Yangtze and for lessening China's dependence on power driven by coal.
(19) The internet is robust, but don’t touch it The alarmist position generally proceeds as follows: The first and most compelling point is the assertion that the European court failed to balance rights to privacy and personal data against freedom of expression and information.
(20) Although the alarmist preamble to each episode of AHTSYL states that "over 900 of us" face a life-threatening emergency in Britain every day, it avoids charges of selective editing with a tight focus on three cases per show.