APPREHENSION


Meaning of APPREHENSION in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

chill of fear/apprehension/disquiet etc

Fay felt a chill of fear as she watched Max go off with her daughter.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

feel

I felt a peculiar apprehension , and sensed the woodland spirits of which Mme Guérigny lived in awe.

Moving to-ward them, he felt a chill of apprehension , and panic.

So why did she now feel this frightening apprehension - a deep, numbing fear of what lay ahead?

On a bike when encountering hikers, you feel the immediate apprehension and paranoia, even from a distance.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A $100,000 reward is being offered for information leading to apprehension of the killer.

Dad has some apprehensions about having surgery.

Diplomats watched the events with growing apprehension .

The discussion centered on our apprehension of the nature of God.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Authorities then use the profiles to identify suspects and to attempt to elicit confessions after their apprehension .

He noticed that the veins were standing out on Michael's forehead and against his will felt a surge of apprehension .

I felt a peculiar apprehension , and sensed the woodland spirits of which Mme Guérigny lived in awe.

Moving to-ward them, he felt a chill of apprehension , and panic.

No evidence emerged to justify the apprehension of the authorities, but this did not trouble the court.

She has repeatedly emphasized that her novels are linguistically self-conscious explicitly in order to translate the apprehension of the problematic area of language.

The Department of Agriculture was apparently unconcerned about the growing apprehension .

What is important to me is the apprehension of the person or persons who killed our son.

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