alarmed

Etymology

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of alarm

adj

  1. Having an alarm fitted.
    This door is alarmed.
  2. Worried; anxious; panicky.
    I'm extremely alarmed about the army outside my house.
    1848-50, William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendeniss, ch 2:
  3. 8: Thomas, the groom, in the act of drinking, put down the jug alarmed before his master. Thomas’s master felt the honour keenly.

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