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Alarm vs Gloppen - What's the difference?

alarm | gloppen |

As a noun alarm

is alert, alarm.

As a verb gloppen is

to be in fear; gaze in alarm or astonishment; look downcast.

alarm

English

Alternative forms

* alarum

Noun

  • A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
    • ''Arming to answer in a night alarm . --Shakespeare.
  • Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
    • ''Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. --Joel ii. 1.
  • A sudden attack; disturbance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • these home alarms
  • * Alexander Pope
    • thy palace fill with insults and alarms
  • Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
    • ''Alarm and resentment spread throughout the camp. --.
  • A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
    • ''The clockradio is a friendlier version of the cold alarm by the bedside
  • An instance of an alarum ringing or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
    • ''You should set the alarm on your watch to go off at seven o'clock.

    Related terms

    * alarm bell * alarm clock * alarm reaction * fire alarm * raise the alarm

    See also

    * tocsin

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.

    • Related terms

    * alarming * alarmist

    References

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    Anagrams

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    gloppen

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be in fear; gaze in alarm or astonishment; look downcast
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1848 , year_published=2000 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Elizabeth Gaskell , title=Mary Barton , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage="O Job! if you will help me," exclaimed Mary, brightening up (though it was but a wintry gleam after all), "tell me what to say, when they question me; I shall be so gloppened ,* I shan't know what to answer." / *Gloppened; terrified. }}
  • To terrify; astonish; surprise.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2006 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Jeremy Iverson , title=High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn=9780743283632 , page=59 , passage=A pause before the intense guy cut in: "The Word of the Day is gloppen'''''. Verb, transitive and intransitive. … One. To surprise or astonish. Two. To be startled or astonished. '''''Gloppen ." }}

    Derived terms

    * (l)

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