Synonyms of the word

alarm

• n. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
• n. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention;…
• n. A sudden attack; disturbance.
• n. Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly,…
• n. A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
• n. An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
• v. (transitive) To call to arms for defense.
• v. (transitive) To give (someone) notice of approaching danger.
• v. (transitive) To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.
• v. (transitive) To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil;…
• v. (transitive) To keep in excitement; to disturb.

affright

• n. (archaic) Great fear, terror, fright.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To terrify, to frighten, to inspire fright in.
• adj. afraid; terrified; frightened.

alarum

• n. (archaic) A danger signal or warning.
• n. A call to arms.
• v. (archaic) To sound alarums, to sound an alarm.

alert

• adj. Attentive; awake; on guard.
• adj. (obsolete) Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
• n. An alarm.
• n. A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
• v. To give warning to.

appal

• v. (Britain, less common) Alternative spelling of appall.

appall

• v. (transitive) To fill with horror; to dismay.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make pale; to blanch.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To weaken; to reduce in strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To lose flavour or become stale.

clock

• n. An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
• n. (Britain) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
• n. (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips…
• n. The seed head of a dandelion.
• n. A time clock.
• v. (transitive) To measure the duration of.
• v. (transitive) To measure the speed of.
• v. (transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
• v. (slang) To take notice of; to realise.
• v. (Britain, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
• v. (transitive, New Zealand, slang) To beat a video game.
• v. (transitive, informal) To recognize someone or something.
• n. A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
• v. (transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
• n. A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
• v. (intransitive, dated) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.

consternation

• n. Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with…

device

• n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
• n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
• n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
• n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb.
• n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience;…
• n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs…
• n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
• n. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
• n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
• n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
• n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

dismay

• n. A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling…
• n. Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
• v. To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive of firmness and…
• v. To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
• v. To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.

fear

• n. (uncountable) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
• n. (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
• n. (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
• v. (transitive) To feel fear about (something or someone); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm.
• v. (intransitive) To feel fear (about something).
• v. (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
• v. (transitive) Regret.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause fear to; to frighten.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be anxious or solicitous for.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To suspect; to doubt.
• adj. (dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.

fearfulness

• n. The quality of being fearful.

fright

• n. A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short…
• n. Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To frighten.
• adj. (rare) frightened; afraid; affright.

frighten

• v. To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.

horrify

• v. To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.

scare

• n. A minor fright.
• n. A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread.
• v. To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.

sign

• n. (sometimes also used uncountably) A visible indication.
• n. A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures.
• n. (astrology) An astrological sign.
• n. (mathematics) Positive or negative polarity. (Note: it is improper to place a sign on the number zero).
• n. A specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically,…
• n. (uncountable) Sign language in general.
• n. An omen.
• n. (medicine) A property of the body that indicates a disease and, unlike a symptom, is unlikely to be noticed…
• n. A military emblem carried on a banner or standard.
• v. To make a mark.
• v. To make the sign of the cross.
• v. To indicate.

signal

• n. A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted…
• n. An on-off light, semaphore, or other device used to give an indication to another person.
• n. (of a radio, TV, telephone, internet, etc.) An electrical or electromagnetic action, normally a voltage…
• n. A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
• n. Useful information, as opposed to noise.
• n. (computing, Unix) A simple interprocess communication used to notify a process or thread of an occurrence.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To indicate.
• adj. Standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement.

signaling

• v. present participle of signal.
• n. (usually biochemistry) The sending of a biochemical or other type of signal.

warn

• v. (transitive) To make (someone) aware of impending danger etc.
• v. (transitive) To caution (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour.
• v. (transitive) To notify (someone) of something untoward.
• v. (intransitive) To give warning.
• v. (obsolete) To refuse, deny (someone something).