Alarm
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

4 letters

FEAR
An anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction"

5 letters

SCARE
A sudden attack of fear

PANIC
Be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away"

SIREN
Eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills

ALERT
A warning serves to make you more alert to danger

APPAL
Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us"

UPSET
An improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"

FALSE
Deliberately deceptive; "false pretenses"

6 letters

BEEPER
An electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged

FRIGHT
Cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her"

TERROR
The use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons); "he used terror to make them confess"

APPALL
Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us"

ALARUM
An automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger

DISMAY
Fear resulting from the awareness of danger

TOCSIN
A bell used to sound an alarm

7 letters

STARTLE
A sudden involuntary movement; "he awoke with a start"

HORRIFY
Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us"

AGITATE
Cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"

WARNING
Notification of something, usually in advance; "they gave little warning of their arrival"; "she had only had four days' warning before leaving Berlin"

UNNERVE

ANXIETY
A vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune

8 letters

SURPRISE
Attack by storm; attack suddenly

DISTRESS
The seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; "Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien"

AFFRIGHT
An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety

FRIGHTEN
Cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her"

10 letters

ALARMCLOCK
A clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time

11 letters

ALARMSYSTEM
A device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event

TREPIDATION
A feeling of alarm or dread

12 letters

APPREHENSION
The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"

PERTURBATION
The act of causing disorder

13 letters

WARNINGDEVICE
A device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event

WARNINGSIGNAL
An automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger

CONSTERNATION
Fear resulting from the awareness of danger