Alarm is a related term of appall.
As a noun alarm
is alert, alarm.
As a verb appall is
to depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to inundate with sudden terror or horror; to dismay.
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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
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appall English
Alternative forms
* appal (occasionally in Commonwealth English)
Verb
( en verb)
To depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to inundate with sudden terror or horror; to dismay.
- The sight appalled the stoutest heart.
* Edward Hyde Claredon
- The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum.
(obsolete) To make pale; to blanch.
* Wyatt
- The answer that ye made to me, my dear, / Hath so appalled my countenance.
(obsolete) To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce.
* Holland
- Wine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold.
(obsolete) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.
- (Gower)
(obsolete) To lose flavour or become stale.
Synonyms
* dismay, terrify, daunt, frighten, affright, scare, depress
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