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alarmed

 adjective
     
Related topics: Crime and Law
a‧larmed
1 worried or frightened
alarmed by/at
Environmentalists are alarmed by the increase in pollution.
alarmed to see/hear etc
He was alarmed to discover that his car was gone.
2SC protected by an alarm:
The whole building is alarmed.
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