alerting Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a state of readiness to respond
    alertness.
    • alerting was indicated by the desynchronization of the EEG
  2. noun a warning serves to make you more alert to danger
    alert.
  3. verb warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
    alarm; alert.
    • The empty house alarmed him
    • We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries

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