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Meaning of alarm

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  alarm
      n 1: fear resulting from the awareness of danger [syn: {alarm},
           {dismay}, {consternation}]
      2: a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable
         event [syn: {alarm}, {warning device}, {alarm system}]
      3: an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger [syn:
         {alarm}, {alert}, {warning signal}, {alarum}]
      4: a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time [syn: {alarm
         clock}, {alarm}]
      v 1: fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly
           surprised; "I was horrified at the thought of being late
           for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified
           us" [syn: {dismay}, {alarm}, {appal}, {appall}, {horrify}]
      2: warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of
         preparedness; "The empty house alarmed him"; "We alerted the
         new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries" [syn: {alarm},
         {alert}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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