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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Physiol.) a state of readiness to respond.
  • noun a warning serves to make you more alert to danger.

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  • verb Present participle of alert.

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  • noun a warning serves to make you more alert to danger
  • noun a state of readiness to respond

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