alarming

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alarming

  1. present participle and gerund of alarm

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alarming (comparative more alarming, superlative most alarming)

  1. Causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening.
    • 2024 March 20, Richard Foster, “Vital experience in an open-air classroom”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 60:
      Another stop at the 731-yard Sharpthorne Tunnel allowed the apprentices to see how a combination of water and a "chemical soup" is destroying the rails at an alarming rate.

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