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alarming

[uh-lahr-ming]

adjective

  1. causing alarm or fear.

    an alarming case of pneumonia; an alarming lack of respect.



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Other 51Թ Forms

  • alarmingly adverb
  • unalarming adjective
  • unalarmingly adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of alarming1

First recorded in 1670–80; alarm + -ing 2
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According to the UN, battlefield executions by Russians have increased at an alarming rate over the past year.

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Marines from Los Angeles, writing in a letter that the deployment amounts to “an alarming abuse of executive authority.”

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"I think angst has been inseparable from Aukus since its beginning… The review itself is not alarming. It's just everything else," Euan Graham, from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, tells the BBC.

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“This alarming lack of transparency and lack of allowing congressional members and lawyers to have access to people who are being detained really begs the question, what are they afraid of us seeing?” she asked.

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But it was still a sobering, alarming evening as Senegal outclassed England.

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