adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be alarmed/appalled/upset etc at the prospect (of sth)
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She was secretly appalled at the prospect of being looked after by her aunt.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Alarmed storekeepers locked their doors.
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She became alarmed when she could not waken her husband.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A person who is alarmed experiences a sudden fear or apprehension of danger - some sort of anxiety.
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But by that time Pius had become alarmed at the pace of change.
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But experts at the Coney Hill Psychiatric Hospital are alarmed .
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But prominent psychologists and psychiatrists are alarmed .
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He had expressed a similar thought to a neurologist friend of his once, to receive an alarmed look in reply.
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If you already have a timber-frame house, however, do not be alarmed !
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Realising that something had gone wrong, the alarmed miner was making his way out of the pit.