apprehend
apprehend
Definition
ap·pre·hend (ap′rē hend′, -ri-)
transitive verb
- to take into custody; capture or arrest
- to take hold of mentally; perceive; understand
- to anticipate with anxiety; dread
- Obsolete to seize
Etymology: ME apprehenden < LL apprehendere, to understand < L, to take hold of < ad-, to + prehendere: see prehensile
intransitive verb
to understand
apprehend
Synonyms
apprehend
Usage Examples
Object
- shoplifter: I have yet to see a mounted police officer apprehending a shoplifter galloping along Midsummer Boulevard.
- culprit: Among the culprits apprehended by enforcement officers during the blitz were a number of carp fisherman in the Environment Agency's Thames region.
- offender: Where early attendance will assist in securing evidence to apprehend an offender.
- thief: Surveillance teams operate to detect and apprehend thieves who may be taking advantage of open stands from which valuable items can easily be stolen.
- suspect: Officers searched the area and recovered fired pellets but were unable to apprehend any suspects.
Preposition: on
- suspicion: Three lads have been apprehended on suspicion May 31 st 1859 Free Grants of Land of 40 to 5000 acres or upwards.
Subject
- police: They are among a group of 12 boys apprehended by police.
- officer: Among the culprits apprehended by enforcement officers during the blitz were a number of carp fisherman in the Environment Agency's Thames region.
Modifying Another Word
- dimly: The background he apprehended dimly; it was very much the sort of background his life had always had.
- reasonably: Here it is found that the respondent [ ie the police officer ] reasonably apprehended a breach of the peace.
- rightly: The essential holiness of God, - do we rightly apprehend what it is?
- directly: Hume also claims that we never directly apprehend the self.
- immediately: I was much rapt in this; And apprehended here immediately Th ' unknown AJAX.
- clearly: MR IRVING: My Lord, I had clearly apprehend exactly what your Lordship intends with that word.
Used with why or when
- what: The essential holiness of God, - do we rightly apprehend what it is?
Preposition: by
- faith: Rather, it is something that we apprehend by faith from outside of ourselves.
- police: They are among a group of 12 boys apprehended by police.
- officer: Among the culprits apprehended by enforcement officers during the blitz were a number of carp fisherman in the Environment Agency's Thames region.
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