Apprehension

/æp.ɹɪˈhɛn.ʃən/ · noun

Meaning

(rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.
2. (law) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
3. Perception; the act of understanding using one's intellect without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment
4. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
5. The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
6. Anticipation, especially of unfavorable things such as dread or fear or the prospect of something unpleasant in the future.

Example Sentences

The wing would have been a severe obstruction to apprehension of an object on the ground.

The warrant had been issued for his apprehension on the charge of rioting.

When he told us that a large reward was offered by Sir Leicester Dedlock for the murderer's apprehension, I did not in my first consternation understand why; […]

After video emerged of an aggressive apprehension of a teenager in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, McLaughlin claimed it was old video and didn’t involve ICE. She called it “a video from a burglary arrest Chicago Police made over a year ago.”

We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life.

We think we get a kind of vague apprehension of what London means from the top of a 'bus better than anywhere else.

Strangers of limited information and dull apprehension were sometimes observed not to know what a Powler was.

Every circumstance which evinced the savage nature of the beings at whose mercy I was, augmented the fearful apprehensions that consumed me.

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