Definitions for alarming

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alarming a·larm·ing

Spelling: [uh-lahr-ming]

IPA: /əˈlɑr mɪŋ/

Alarming is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 303 anagrams from letters in alarming (aagilmnr).

Definitions for alarming

noun

1. a sudden fear or distressing suspense caused by an awareness of danger; apprehension; fright.
2. any sound, outcry, or information intended to warn of approaching danger:
3. an automatic device that serves to call attention, to rouse from sleep, or to warn of fire, smoke, an intruder, etc.
4. a warning sound; signal for attention.
5. Animal Behavior. any sound, outcry, chemical discharge, action, or other signal that functions to draw attention to a potential predator.
6. Fencing. an appeal or a challenge made by a step or stamp on the ground with the advancing foot.
7. Archaic. a call to arms.

adjective

1. causing alarm or fear:

verb (used with object)

1. to make fearful or apprehensive; distress.
2. to warn of danger; rouse to vigilance and swift measures for safety.
3. to fit or equip with an alarm or alarms, as for fire, smoke, or robbery:

Origin of alarming

First recorded in 1670-80; alarm + -ing²

Examples for alarming

I was seized with a fever, which left me in a state of alarming debility.

Yesterday morning, my in-box was stuffed to the gunwales with alarming messages alerting me to…to what?

Any time there is a new outbreak of infectious disease, it can be alarming.

It might, as you have said, be wiser to watch and wait, and to avoid all chance of alarming this man.

Everybody looked at Mr Willet, after this alarming suggestion.

It hurt him to think that he had only succeeded in alarming her.

I glimpse an alarming, finger-length aluminum baton in her bag.

As alarming as parents might find those results, Dr. Temple cautions against jumping to any drastic conclusions.

All of this Ebola activity raises a number of questions, each of them alarming.

On the whole, my reception was not so alarming as I had feared.