ALARMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alarmed mean? 

• ALARMED (adjective)
  The adjective ALARMED has 1 sense:

1. experiencing a sudden sense of danger

  Familiarity information: ALARMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALARMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Experiencing a sudden sense of danger

Similar:

afraid (filled with fear or apprehension)

 Context examples 

Indeed, it was no wonder that my friends were alarmed, and insisted on my being put under control.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He could not fail to connect my sudden return with his crime, and to be terribly alarmed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No longer afraid of leaving her, I noiselessly turned back again; and alarmed the house as I went out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"I'm afraid something has happened. Step into the garden, Scott, while I look up Mrs. Brooke," said John, alarmed at the silence and solitude.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His was the gift of sympathy, understanding; and beneath his alarmed exterior that sympathetic process went on.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was very uneasy and alarmed, as you may fancy, and it rather added to my fears to observe that the stranger was certainly frightened himself.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Their faces expressed a mixture of curiosity and anger, which annoyed and in some degree alarmed me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And yet I was not alarmed; the fall seemed natural, like a return to the old days before I had made my discovery.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Alarmed by the increasing devastation, Hull learned that keeping a horse in this region serves a similar function as maintaining a bank account.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)

I was alarmed at midnight with the cries of many hundred people at my door; by which, being suddenly awaked, I was in some kind of terror.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)