alarm vs want

alarm

verb
  • To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert. 

  • To give (someone) notice of approaching danger 

  • To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear. 

  • To call to arms for defense 

  • To keep in excitement; to disturb. 

noun
  • An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time. 

  • A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention. 

  • A sudden attack; disturbance. 

  • Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. 

  • A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. 

  • Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise. 

want

verb
  • To be advised to do something (compare should, ought). 

  • To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it. 

  • To desire (to experience desire); to wish. 

  • To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun). 

  • To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand. 

  • To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with. 

noun
  • A desire, wish, longing. 

  • Poverty. 

  • Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt. 

  • A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place. 

  • Lack, absence, deficiency. 

  • A mole (Talpa europea). 

How often have the words alarm and want occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )