alarming
English
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editalarming
- present participle and gerund of alarm
Adjective
editalarming (comparative more alarming, superlative most alarming)
- 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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editcausing alarm
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