alarmed

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈlɑɹmd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈlɑːmd/

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• Hyphenation: alarmed

alarmed

1. simple past tense and past participle of alarm

alarmed (not comparable)

1. Having an alarm fitted.

   This door is alarmed.

2. Worried; anxious; panicky.

   I'm extremely alarmed about the army outside my house.

   • 1848-50, William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendeniss, ch 2:
3. 8: Thomas, the groom, in the act of drinking, put down the jug alarmed before his master. Thomas’s master felt the honour keenly.