ppl. a. [f. ALARM v. + -ING2.] Disturbing or exciting with the apprehension of danger.
1680. Burnet, Rochester (1692), 86. With such allarming Evidences.
1769. Junius Lett., ii. 14. The last charge … is of a most serious and alarming nature.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 278. But one alarming report followed another fast.
