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apprehension

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"Uneasy feeling"

12 letters · collected on this word page

12 lettersPronunciation /æp.ɹɪˈhɛn.ʃən/Part of speech nounSorted aeehinnopprsStarts with AEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
1A2P3P4R5E6H7E8N9S10I11O12N

Definitions

  1. the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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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