Apprehend

Definition:

  • (v. t.) To take or seize; to take hold of.
  • (v. t.) Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
  • (v. t.) To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
  • (v. t.) To know or learn with certainty.
  • (v. t.) To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
  • (v. i.) To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
  • (v. i.) To be apprehensive; to fear.

Compare apprehend with other words:

apprehend vs. realize

apprehend vs. inapprehensible

apprehend vs. perceive

apprehend vs. prehend

appreciate vs. apprehend

apprehend vs. deduce

apprehend vs. worry

apprehend vs. apprehensive

apprehend vs. ascertain

apprehend vs. apprehender

apprehend vs. apprehending

apprehend vs. apprehensible

apprehend vs. sensate

acknowledge vs. apprehend

apprehend vs. rhizome

apprehend vs. conception

apprehend vs. reprehend

apprehend vs. apprehension

apprehend vs. overtake

apprehend vs. recognize

apprehend vs. dread

apprehend vs. fear

apprehend vs. believe

apprehend vs. imagine

apprehend vs. conceive

apprehend vs. detain

apprehend vs. arrest

apprehend vs. seize

apprehend vs. misapprehend

apprehend vs. catch

apprehend vs. capture

apprehend vs. understand

apprehend vs. grasp

apprehend vs. comprehend

apprehend vs. bone