Apprehend

What do we mean by apprehend?

To take into custody; arrest. intransitive verb

To grasp mentally; understand: synonym: understand. intransitive verb

To become conscious of, as through the emotions or senses; perceive. intransitive verb

To anticipate with worry or dread. intransitive verb

To understand something. intransitive verb

. To lay hold of; seize upon; take possession of.

To take into custody; make prisoner; arrest by legal warrant or authority.

To take into the mind; seize or grasp mentally; take cognizance of.

To imagine, especially an object of desire or dread; form a concrete conception of: frequently opposed to comprehend or attend.

To understand; take an intelligent view of.

To anticipate; expect; especially, to entertain suspicion or fear of.

To hold in opinion; be of opinion concerning. See extract.

Synonyms To catch, arrest, capture.

Apprehend, Comprehend; to conceive, perceive, see, know. “We apprehend many truths which we do not comprehend. The great mystery, for instance, of the Holy Trinity—we lay hold upon it (ad prehendo), we hang upon it, our souls live by it; but we do not take it all in, we do not comprehend it. It belongs to the idea of God that he may be apprehended though not comprehended by his reasonable creatures; he has made them to know him, though not to know him all, to apprehend though not to comprehend him.” Trench.

To fear, dread, anticipate (with fear).

To imagine; form a concrete conception of anything; have intellectual perception; catch the idea or meaning.

To believe or be of opinion, but without positive certainty: used as a modest way of introducing an opinion: as, all this is true, but we apprehend it is not to the purpose.

To be apprehensive; be in fear of a future evil.

To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose. intransitive verb

To be apprehensive; to fear. intransitive verb

To take or seize; to take hold of.

To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.

To anticipate; especially, to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.

To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.

To be apprehensive; to fear.

Words that are spelled similarly to apprehend:
apprehend, reprehend, apprehended, prehend, deprehend, apprehends.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word apprehend:
culprits, interrogate, detain, apprehended, perpetrators, fugitive, prosecute, suspect, thieves, punish, suspected, unlawful, batman, felony, bounty, murderer, bail, fleeing, thief, assassin, killer, terrorist, arrest, escaped, constable, warrant, notorious, fails, hiding, illegal, criminal, custody, gang, theft, casey, spy, crimes, stolen, innocent, kill, torture, fbi, recover, detective, discover, divine, escape, bring, agrees, arrested, capture, crime, agents, dangerous, guilty, cameron, revenge, murder, rebels, enforcement, imprisoned, informed, attempting, seized, sheriff, steven, truth, victim, witness, serial, drug, immediate, vessels, assault, violent, killed, killing, police, violence, person, persons, immigration, fled, guards, shooting, tries, caught, shall, rescue, trial.

Words that rhyme with apprehend:
end, bend, friend, lend, attend, amend, trend, recommend, contend, extend, spend, transcend, send, tend, blend, commend, portend, comprehend, intend, pretend, append, suspend, descend, condescend, offend, mend, dividend, depend, expend, ascend, defend, unbend, fend, weekend, wend, befriend, godsend, impend, misspend, overspend, outspend, penned, distend, girlfriend, abend, bookend, boyfriend, yearend, back end, scend, dead end, denned, yenned, rear end, shend, downtrend, overextend, pitchblende, mende, bitter end, hornblende, front end, tail end, blende, backend, uptrend, reoffend, ende, best friend, in the end, fag end, arend, tight end, hende, kenned, loose end, tag end, wende, west end, exboyfriend, without end, split end, no end, sheet bend, butt end, townshend, lady friend, hind end, wallsend, becket bend, riverbend, gable end, carrick bend, rende, extra dividend, next friend, equalizing dividend, stock dividend, landsend, goodfriend.

Adjectives that are often used to describe apprehend:
many, much, present, french, first, wise, most, few, best, more, general, better, less, least, together, with, former.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective apprehend:
doghood.

Words that sound like apprehend:
apprehend, apprehends, apprehender, reprehend, apprehended, apprehending, prehend, upper hand, apparition, arahant, arrowhead, opera hood, opryland, apparitions, aborigine, appartement, appelant, aborigen, imprisoned, apprehension, apprehensive, prepend, appetent, operand, open end, aproned, opera hat.