What is another word for alarms?

Pronunciation: [ɐlˈɑːmz] (IPA)

The word "alarms" is often associated with loud, startling noises that alert people to potential danger or emergency situations. However, there are many synonyms for alarms that convey different levels of urgency or types of warning. Some options include signals, alerts, sirens, warnings, notifications, beacons, buzzers, horns, klaxons, and chimes. Each of these words can be used to describe a specific type of alarm, such as a fire alarm or a weather alert, and can help convey the gravity of the situation. Choosing the right synonym for an alarm can help ensure that people take appropriate action in response to the warning.

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Usage examples for Alarms

Moreover, the experience of every man teaches him that each method has its own impressiveness: the announcement of punishment awes, and a surprise alarms, and when they are alternated, every possible door of access to the conscience is approached.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
Our alarms, however, were not yet ended.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
Long since out of its banks, its waters poured through the bottoms with an angry roar, and at night those who gathered on the brink in the town to mark its steady rising could hear cries of distress from the heavy timber, the firing of guns, and other alarms.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe

Famous quotes with Alarms

  • O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
    William Cowper
  • It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
    Michel de Montaigne
  • As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.
    Salvatore Quasimodo
  • First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot.
    Christopher Shays
  • I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick.
    Christopher Shays

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