alarm

alarm is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
2. noun. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
3. noun. A sudden attack; disturbance; broil.
4. noun. Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
5. noun. A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum.
6. transitive verb. To call to arms for defense; to give notice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.
7. transitive verb. To keep in excitement; to disturb.
8. transitive verb. To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
9. noun. a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event
10. noun. a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time
11. noun. an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger

    Synonyms: alarum, alert

12. noun. fear resulting from the awareness of danger

    Synonyms: consternation, dismay

13. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: alert

14. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: appal, appall, dismay, horrify

Synonyms

alarum, alert, consternation, dismay, appal, appall, horrify

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in alarm:

malar, maral, marla, ramal

Common word forms

alarms, alarmed, alarming, alarmable

Words from these letters

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