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apprehensive | harrassed |

As an adjective apprehensive

is .

As a verb harrassed is

(harrass).

apprehensive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
  • * 1719 ,
    • this convinced me that there was no going on shore for us in the night on that coast, and how to venture on shore in the day was another question too; for to have fallen into the hands of any of the savages had been as bad as to have fallen into the hands of the lions and tigers; at least we were equally apprehensive of the danger of it.
  • Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect.
  • * 1670 ,
    • More fond of Miracles, than apprehensive of Truth.

    Derived terms

    * apprehensively

    harrassed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (harrass)

    • harrass

    English

    Verb

    to harrass
  • (dated) To harass

    • Quotations

    *1829 Jared Sparks - The Correspondence of the American Revolution *:If the Americans have horse well trained to the woods, it will harrass such an army infinitely