VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / alarms

Thesaurus: alarms

n fear resulting from the awareness of danger n a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event n an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger n a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time …

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

Definitions

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