alarm
noun
a sudden fear or distressing suspense caused by an awareness of danger; apprehension; fright.
alarmedly
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a word derived from
alarm.
Example Sentences
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Dear young sir," touching his arm alarmedly, "don't read this book.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
"Lor', who would have thought it!" exclaimed both the ladies, but they instantly fell back and seemed to think it better to leave so alarmedly learned a little girl alone.
From The Palace Beautiful A Story for Girls by L. T. Meade
HE saluted her; but she looked gravely and yet alarmedly, and then in a sudden, illy-repressed panic, upon him.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
The woman, looking alarmedly at her, murmured the word "bread-sauce?" and sucked in her cheeks.
From A Sheaf of Corn by Mary E. Mann
"He's no fit mate for you, Caroline," Markham said alarmedly.
From A Son of the Hills by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
