alarm
1. fear resulting from the awareness of danger (Freq. 5)
• Syn:
dismay, consternation
• Derivationally related forms:
dismay (for: dismay)
• Hypernyms:
fear, fearfulness, fright
• Attrubites:
alarming, unalarming
2. a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event (Freq. 3)
• Syn:
warning device, alarm system
• Hypernyms:
device
• Hyponyms:
automobile horn, car horn, motor horn, horn, hooter,
burglar alarm, fire alarm, smoke alarm, siren
3. an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
• Syn:
alert, warning signal, alarum
• Derivationally related forms:
alert (for: alert)
• Hypernyms:
signal, signaling, sign
• Hyponyms:
torpedo, air alert, burglar alarm, fire alarm, foghorn,
fogsignal, horn, red flag, siren, tocsin, alarm bell
4. a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time
• Syn:
alarm clock
• Hypernyms:
clock
1. fill with apprehension or alarm;
cause to be unpleasantly surprised (Freq. 2)
- I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview
- The news of the executions horrified us
• Syn:
dismay, appal, appall, horrify
• Derivationally related forms:
horror (for: horrify), alarmist, dismay (for: dismay)
• Hypernyms:
frighten, fright, scare, affright
• Hyponyms:
shock
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- The bad news will alarm him
2. warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness (Freq. 1)
- The empty house alarmed him
- We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries
• Syn:
alert
• Derivationally related forms:
alert (for: alert)
• Hypernyms:
warn
• Hyponyms:
wake
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
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