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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'apprehension' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions apprehension noun  (rare) The physical act of seize, seizing or take hold, taking hold of; seizure. 2006, Phil Senter, "Comparison of Forelimb Function between Deinonychus and Babiraptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridea)", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 26, no. 4 (Dec.), p. 905, :The wing would have been a severe obstruction to of an object on the ground. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest. 1855, w:Elizabeth_Gaskell, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, ch. 37, :The warrant had been issued for his on the charge of rioting. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception. 1815, w:Percy_Bysshe_Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "On Life," in A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays (1840 edition), :We live on, and in living we lose the of life. opinion, Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea. 1901, w:Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Penelope's English Experiences, ch. 8, :We think we get a kind of vague of what London means from the top of a 'bus better than anywhere else. The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding. 1854, w:Charles_Dickens, Charles Dickens, Hard Times, ch. 7, :Strangers of limited information and dull were sometimes observed not to know what a Powler was. anticipation, Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill. 1846, w:Herman_Melville, Herman Melville, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, ch. 32, :Every circumstance which evinced the savage nature of the beings at whose mercy I was, augmented the fearful apprehensions that consumed me. Translations:  Dutch: (t, nl, vrees, f), angst(nl)f Etymology: From apprehensio, compare with French appréhension. See apprehend.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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