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