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alaruming

alaruming is the present participle and gerund of alarum.

Meaning of alarum

Verb

alarum (third-person singular simple present alarums, present participle alaruming, simple past and past participle alarumed)

  1. (archaic) To sound alarums, to sound an alarm.
    • Now o're the one halfe World / Nature ſeemes dead, and wicked Dreames abuſe / The Curtain'd ſleepe: Witchcraft celebrates / Pale Heccats Offrings: and wither'd Murther, / Alarum'd by his Centinell, the Wolfe, / Whoſe howle's his Watch, thus with his ſtealthy pace, / With Tarquins rauiſhing ſides...c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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Questions about alaruming

What is alaruming the present participle and gerund of?
Alaruming is the present participle and gerund of alarum.

Words near alaruming in the dictionary

  1. alarsite
  2. alarum
  3. alarum clock
  4. alarum clocks
  5. alarumed
  6. alaruming
  7. alarums
  8. alarums and excursions
  9. alary
  10. alaryngeal
  11. alas

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