apprehension

CEFRC1

/æp.ɹɪˈhɛn.ʃən/

noun

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The awareness of something, Perception; the act of understanding using one's intellect without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment
The taking of something., The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.

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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; […]

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The warrant had been issued for his apprehension on the charge of rioting.
1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 37, in North and South
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; […]
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
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.”
2026 February 17, Aaron Blake, “The many claims by Trump’s DHS that have fallen apart”, in CNN, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2026
We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life.
1815, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “On Life,”, in A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays, published 1840
We think we get a kind of vague apprehension of what London means from the top of a 'bus better than anywhere else.
1901, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 8, in Penelope's English Experiences

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Borrowed from Latin apprehensio, apprehensionis, compare with French appréhension. See apprehend.