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alarmed

adjective as in frightened

Strong match

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After a 2016 fire tornado ripped through northern Canada and a firestorm consumed Gatlinburg, Tennessee, he said, “alarm bells started going off” for the insurance industry.

Meanwhile, last month, the WHO raised an alarm that the response to the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the west of the DR Congo is underfunded and facing logistic challenges.

From Quartz

He is one of a number of federal defense attorneys who have been sounding the alarm about conditions at the downtown prison, arguing that people being detained in the facility were being put at risk.

The idea is to make the trail go cold or, better yet, raise false alarms for investigators.

She was early to sound the alarm on the pandemic while also arguing for keeping parks and beaches open.

From Ozy

The early reaction to Shami closing his account is similarly alarmed.

Chernon Bah, co-founder of A World at School, was alarmed by what she witnessed recently in Sierra Leone.

Biologist Mattson is alarmed by the abrupt 2008 rise in grizzly mortality from conflicts both with livestock and hunters.

He saw his mother on the couch and figured she was sleeping, but then he became alarmed.

He had grown even more alarmed when he discovered that her passport was missing.

The expatriated ex-rebels became alarmed by the non-receipt of the indemnity instalment and the news from their homes.

Alice had been wondering what had detained her so long, and by the time she arrived had become very much alarmed.

The sentinels seemed much alarmed, and drew up their carbines as if to shoot.

One fainting-fit succeeded to another; till at last Alphonse began to be seriously alarmed.

A maid, alarmed at the din of breaking glass, entered the room to discover what was the matter.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to alarmed, such as: aroused, afraid, anxious, and fearful.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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