alarmed
Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /əˈlɑɹmd/
  • (RP) IPA: /əˈlɑːmd/
Verb
  1. Simple past tense and past participle of alarm
Adjective

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 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC ↗:
      Thomas, the groom, in the act of drinking, put down the jug alarmed before his master. Thomas’s master felt the honour keenly.
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