(fear resulting from the awareness of danger)
(a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event)
(an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger)
(a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time)
(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")
(warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness; "The empty house alarmed him"; "We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries")