ALARM

Definition of ALARM

  1. (noun)fear resulting from the awareness of danger
  2. (noun)a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
  3. (noun)an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
  4. (noun)a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time
  5. (verb)fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
  6. (verb)warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness