apprehension

apprehension has 10 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 12.

Definitions

• n.. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
• n.. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
• n.. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
• n.. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
• n.. The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
• n.. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.
• n.. the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"
• n.. the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
• n.. painful expectation
• n.. fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"