meaning of apprehension
1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
3. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
4. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
5. The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
6. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.
7. the act of apprehending especially apprehending a criminal; "the policeman on the beat got credit for the
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