Alarm vs Abash - What's the difference?
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A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
A sudden attack; disturbance.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
An instance of an alarum ringing or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
To call to arms for defense
To give (someone) notice of approaching danger
To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.
To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
To keep in excitement; to disturb.
To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.
(obsolete) To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.
In transitive terms the difference between alarm and abash
is that alarm is to keep in excitement; to disturb while abash is to make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.As a noun alarm
is a summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.alarm
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Alternative forms
* alarumNoun
- ''Arming to answer in a night alarm . --Shakespeare.
- ''Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. --Joel ii. 1.
- these home alarms
- thy palace fill with insults and alarms
- ''Alarm and resentment spread throughout the camp. --.
- ''The clockradio is a friendlier version of the cold alarm by the bedside
- ''You should set the alarm on your watch to go off at seven o'clock.
See also
* tocsinVerb
(en verb)References
*Anagrams
* ----abash
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Verb
(es)- "He was a man whom no check could abash ." – .