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apprehension

noun as in catching and arresting

Weak match

  • collaring

noun as in understanding

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Again, most apprehensions occur along the southern border.

Burns, who the court heard had "a difficult upbringing", also pleaded not guilty to murder, but she pleaded guilty to impeding the apprehension or prosecution of another person for an arrestable offence.

From BBC

She gets the same feelings of apprehension approaching every scene, with butterflies in her stomach.

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Lalami writes, “Each day resembles the one that came before it, the monotony adding to the women’s apprehension and leading them to make decisions that damage their cases.”

Strangely enough, turning death into an invisible force as opposed to some night stalker with a protean face dissolved some of my usual apprehension.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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