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Another word for apprehension

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Noun

  1. Great agitation and anxiety caused by the expectation or the realization of danger

    Idioms:
    See also:

    fear

  2. A seizing and holding by law

    See also:

    law

  3. Intellectual hold

    See also:

    knowledge

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Another word for apprehension

Noun

  1. Foreboding

    See also:

    fear

    anxiety

  2. Understanding

    See also:

    judgment

  3. Arrest

    See also:

    arrest

  4. Estimate

    See also:

    judgment

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Her apprehension was assuming a reduced priority.

  • The silver eyes were fiery, and apprehension fluttered through her.

  • He felt a wave of apprehension and accelerated heart beat as the door opened.

  • Reflection shows that our apprehension of the tree is conditioned by the sense-organs with which we have been endowed, and that the apprehension of a blind man, and still more the apprehension of a dog or horse, is quite different from ours.

  • Davis watched with some apprehension, but Fritz and Royce were doubling over with laughter.

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