Definitions
warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
Word origin
From Middle English alarme, alarom, borrowed from Middle French alarme, itself from Old Italian all'arme! (“to arms!, to the weapons!”), ultimately from Latin arma (“arms, weapons”).
Used in a sentence
“Arming to answer in a night alarm.”
“Sound an alarm in my holy mountain.”
“She went about the house in a state of real terror, and yet lied monstrously and wilfully, and invented many of the alarms she spread, and made many of the sounds we heard.”
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Used as a crossword answer4 curated clues
01“Wake-up device”5 letters
02“Wake-up sound”5 letters
03“Warning sound”5 letters
04“Warning signal”5 letters
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