Apprehension is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for APPREHENSION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act or power of perceiving or comprehending
• anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen
• understanding; grasp
• the action of arresting someone
• The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
• The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
• The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
• Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
• The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
• Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.
• fearful expectation or anticipation
• the cognitive condition of someone who understands
• painful expectation
• the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or power of perceiving or comprehending; the result of apprehending mentally; conception

Words related to APPREHENSION

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Words that contain APPREHENSION

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How to use APPREHENSION in a sentence

• Marcia looked on with a curiosity in which there was perhaps a shade of apprehension.
• The inhabitants of a city can have but a poor apprehension of the amount of enjoyment and development that comes to them through social stimulus.
• Willoughby and her daughters heard the truth with less of apprehension than the husband and father had anticipated.
• When we did meet, however, I found her sad, and full of apprehension.
• In that dreadful and urgent apprehension every other sentiment merged.
• The Corinthians, in apprehension of some such possible catastrophe, sent to summon Iphicrates with the larger portion of his light infantry.
• He was in a continued state of apprehension from the threatened invasion of the Turks.
• The convention, which never had so much apprehension for its safety, ordered the republican columns to march to its defence.
• I have never yet felt afraid, when really in the presence of danger, though sometimes in its apprehension.
• At first a look of satisfaction came into her face, but it was quickly succeeded by one of nervous apprehension, amounting to positive fear.
• It seemed that his apprehension could not at once be enlarged to so vast a conception.
• In the general judgment of the country, and equally to the apprehension of the mass of his own party and of its rival, Mr.
• It was so furious that the whole fleet was in apprehension.
• Instead of showing apprehension or shame, the fellow began to bluster and threaten.
• An example of his apprehension and memory for numbers was narrated by Mr.
• Park was now within two days journey of Goomba, and had no further apprehension of being molested by the moors.
• What a trivial apprehension! What a child she had been! In the excitement and alarm of his accident she had honestly forgotten her suspicions of him.
• Katherine was well-nigh fainting from actual fear and apprehension.
• He had no apprehension that he might be attacked during the process.
• He likewise asked if he could serve us in any way, expressing an apprehension of our safety, considering the great superiority under Narvaez.
• No spirit but such an one as his, could have sustained the apprehension and fatigue.
• The soldiers, who at first had been filled with apprehension at the thought of slavery among the infidels, were now delighted at the prospect of a struggle ending in escape.
• Externally he managed to keep pretty calm, but within, he was now boiling with anger, now chilled with apprehension.
• And in that moment Olga was afraid, with that sick apprehension of evil that comes upon occasion even to the brave.
• Do this, and discontent will cease, harmony and kind feelings between the sections be restored, and every apprehension of danger to the Union be removed.
• When a large reward was offered for the apprehension of a criminal, Wild was usually able to deliver the man.

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