Meaning of Apprehension | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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; […]”

“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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