alarm vs wake

alarm and wake both are nouns.

alarm and wake both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
alarm	Yes	No	Yes	No
wake	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, wake is a hyponym of alarm; that is, wake is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than alarm:

alarm: warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
wake: to alert someone to something

alarm (noun)	wake (noun)
a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event	a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial
a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time	the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger	the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
fear resulting from the awareness of danger

alarm (verb)	wake (verb)
warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness	be awake, be alert, be there
fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised	stop sleeping
	cause to become awake or conscious
	to alert someone to something
	arouse or excite feelings and passions

Difference between alarm and wake

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.