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ALARMED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Experiencing a sudden sense of danger
Classified under:
Similar:
afraid (filled with fear or apprehension)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb alarm
Context examples:
Then she was terribly alarmed, and she said to herself: What shall I say now when the forester comes home and sees that the children are gone?
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Alarmed, but not discouraged, she tried it another way; a bolt flew, and she believed herself successful; but how strangely mysterious!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Miss Crawford need not be alarmed for her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I was dreadfully alarmed yesterday, but the case is very different to-day.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Smiles decked the face of Mrs. Bennet as the carriage drove up to the door; her husband looked impenetrably grave; her daughters, alarmed, anxious, uneasy.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
She could not be too soon alarmed, nor send for Perry too often.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Surprised and alarmed they proceeded directly into the room she had just quitted, where they found only Willoughby, who was leaning against the mantel-piece with his back towards them.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Don't be alarmed, continued the strange being; she's a safe hand is Mrs. Poole: close and quiet; any one may repose confidence in her.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He looked alarmed, and his eyes shunned mine.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The careful Professor had replaced it where it had come from, lest on waking she should be alarmed.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
