raise the alarm
alarm
verb[ T ]
uk /əˈlɑːm/ us /əˈlɑːrm/
C1
to make someone worried or frightened: 令某人担心或害怕
I didn't want to alarm him by telling him that she was ill.我不想让他担心，没有告诉他她生病的事。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Causing anxiety and worry
agitate
alarming
alarmingly
bite
catch up with someone
come back to bite someoneidiom
disturb
frighten
frighten someone/something away/off
get/go beyond a jokeidiom
give someone the jimjamsidiom
give someone the jittersidiom
oppressive
rattle
roost
stressful
stressfully
suspenseful
suspensefully
suspensive

alarm | American Dictionary

alarm
noun
us/əˈlɑrm/

alarmnoun (ANXIETY)

[ U ]
sudden anxiety and fear, esp. that something very bad or dangerous might happen:
Nicholas detected a note of alarm in her voice.

alarmnoun (WARNING)

[ C ]
a warning signal such as a loud noise or flashing light that gets your immediate attention, or a device that produces such a signal:
Firefighters said the tragedy could have been avoided if the house had had smoke alarms.
alarm
verb[ T ]
us/əˈlɑrm/
to feel or cause sudden anxiety and fear:
Guests were sometimes alarmed to learn that we never locked the doors of the house.

alarming

adjectiveus/əˈlɑr·mɪŋ/
Stock prices began to rise at an alarming rate.

Examples of alarm

alarm
Thus, the parent as well as the infant should experience a volition to seek a haven of safety if sufficiently alarmed.
This enables them to include many cases that do not require it - such as the elicitation of escape by a conspecific's alarm call.
But soon settlers grew alarmed about the social effects of this new medium.
So the buying of someone's hair for wigmaking need raise no moral alarm compared to the buying of someone's kidneys.
However, due to individual variation, visitors should leave the area at any distance if the birds react with alarm calls or fly-off.
The government became alarmed at this development, which was not surprising in view of the extent of high-level corruption in the military.
The factor income deficit (mainly onerous interests on shortterm credits and to some degree profit remittances) is growing although not alarming so far.
The social care case studies covered contracting for domiciliary care, day care, respite and residential care, and an emergency alarm scheme.
News of royal displeasure could cause alarm, but usually the king sought consensus, through negotiation and discussion, and achieved it.
Nevertheless, the results suggest that alarm pheromone compounds have significant potential to improve the efficacy of baits for the control of grass-cutting ants.
Moreover, with the issue of international violence becoming increasingly alarming, academic attention (not just political) should be given to the phenomenon of the military diaspora.
It is able to provide a more accurate estimate about the occurrence of collisions and reduces the number of false alarms.
Its fierce rhetoric, bordering on adventurism, alarmed the college administration.
This sort of behaviour has long sounded critical alarm bells.
The review of social alarms country by country, rather than thematically, resembles a 1970s geography textbook.
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Collocations withalarm

alarm

These are words often used in combination with alarm.

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alarm pheromone
Nevertheless, the results suggest that alarm pheromone compounds have significant potential to improve the efficacy of baits for the control of grass-cutting ants.
alarm signal
In treated colonies, but not controls, workers were excitable and most began head rapping, an alarmsignal, if the colony was disturbed.
alarm system
In the case of frequent fits, especially where there is a warning aura, the patient may wish to be provided with an alarmsystem.
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