(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unable to provide valid identification, he was apprehended under the SB1070 law.
(2) Reasoning ability in crows was investigated by means of the Revecz-Krushinskiĭ test, in which the bird has to apprehend the rule of stimulus (food bait) displacement: "In each next trial the food bait is hidden in a new place--one step further along the row".
(3) It also said that night that the suspect had been unarmed — an assertion that was revealed to be false the next day when officials acknowledged Gonzalez had a knife with him when he was apprehended.
(4) The GGT activities of the repeating offenders indicated that the percentage of heavy drinkers in this group was approximately the same as in the total population of apprehended drunken drivers.
(5) Didier Enrique “Electric” Ramirez was apprehended for his alleged role in the killing of Nelson García , 39, who was shot dead earlier this month by at least two assailants following a dispute with local landowners, authorities said in a statement.
(6) The method is easy to apprehend and has a low complication rate.
(7) The National Institute of Forensic Toxicology, Oslo, receives blood and urine samples from all Norwegian drivers apprehended on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
(8) The prime minister’s comments suggest the government is prepared to consider appointing a replacement if Heydon accepts requests from unions to recuse himself on the grounds of apprehended bias.
(9) If Gleeson could be the guest speaker, how then could it be described as a “Liberal party event?” Even if it was a party occasion, the commissioner asks: “how does that demonstrate that the speaker has an affinity with a partiality for or a persuasion or allegiance or alignment to the Liberal party or lent it support?” If the fair minded lay observer (FMLO), who in this instance is the judge of apprehended bias, had an idea of Heydon’s record on the high court they might get a whiff of partiality to a particular world view, or philosophy.
(10) • 57,000 unaccompanied children have been apprehended at the border in 2014, and between 1,300 and 1,500 have been repatriated so far.
(11) The ACTU, in its submission to the commission, cited a precedent from a previous case that “a judge is disqualified if a fair-minded lay observer might reasonably apprehend that the judge might not bring an impartial mind to the resolution of the question the judge is required to decide”.
(12) The proper way for dealing with any question of bias, including apprehended bias, is to make an application for the commissioner to recuse himself, and for the commissioner to consider and rule on the application.” The clerk of the Senate, Rosemary Laing, has provided advice to Wong about the upper house’s power to address the governor general.
(13) The London mayor, who has previously stated that anyone who swears at police should be apprehended, said an officer's decision to warn Mitchell was correct.
(14) It is exemplified for me most admirably in Goethe's interest in Islam generally, and the 14th-century Persian Sufi poet Hafiz in particular, a consuming passion which led to the composition of the West-östlicher Diwan, and it inflected Goethe's later ideas about Weltliteratur, the study of all the literatures of the world as a symphonic whole which could be apprehended theoretically as having preserved the individuality of each work without losing sight of the whole.
(15) The former high court judge rejected submissions from unions that his agreement to deliver the Sir Garfield Barwick address met the legal test of apprehended bias.
(16) You downplay the fact that 97 people implicated in the case have been apprehended, proving that these tragic events have been met with decisive action.
(17) With numbers of unaccompanied children and families apprehended at the south-west border on the rise again, sparking worries of a major influx of the kind seen in the summer of 2014 that overwhelmed facilities andthe legal system , the government is hoping the raids will act as a deterrent.
(18) In NSW, police now have the power to provide more immediate protection to victims via police-issued apprehended domestic violence orders.
(19) The Washington Post revealed on Tuesday that Omar Gonzalez, a military veteran armed with a knife, who scaled the White House fence in September, was not apprehended until he had run through the main hall , past the staircase that leads to the president’s private quarters and all the way through the East Room.
(20) This article is a review of Swedish and international literature concerning children apprehended for drunkenness.
Overtake
Definition:
(v. t.) To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.
(v. t.) To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.
(v. t.) Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is the second fate that is overtaking the government's higher education reforms.
(2) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
(3) Another was a mock-up of a speeding ticket for Mr G Bale, Campeón de Copa, for overtaking recklessly, crossing a continuous white line.
(4) Aims include overtaking Tesco to become the market leader in general merchandise and leapfrogging Sainsbury's to become No 2 in food.
(5) On the positive side, it will very soon overtake Les Miserables (£40.8m) to become the second-biggest 2013 release, behind only Despicable Me 2 (£47.4m).
(6) Desmond has some way to go if Channel 5 is to overtake Channel 4 as the fourth most popular TV channel in the UK.
(7) Until the first exit polls came in on the evening of Sunday 26 June, the sorpasso (overtaking) was taken for granted.
(8) Marketing experts estimated that the campaign cost about £7,500, and succeeded in boosted Cameron’s “likes” by 47,000 to 127,000, overtaking Nick Clegg’s 80,000 in the process.
(9) The overtaking of the role as a widow is much dependent of capacities which are learned in an earlier life span.
(10) THe German striker still needs one more goal to overtake Ronaldo and become the all-time highest World Cup scorer with 16 goals.
(11) It thought it could overtake the socialists as the leading force on the left and, so, either lead the government or lead the opposition.
(12) Batman v Superman this week became the highest-grossing superhero film of 2016 so far, overtaking Deadpool, and is the second highest-grossing movie overall behind Zootopia (Zootropolis in the UK).
(13) However Moyles, who had been hoping to overtake the Radio 2 breakfast in the Rajar figures following Wogan's handover to Evans, instead saw the gap between the two shows' audiences increase.
(14) The outlook predicted coal’s ongoing decline would see gas overtake it as the world’s second largest source of energy by 2035, with fracking for US shale driving much of the gas growth.
(15) Even in the multimillion pound industry that is the Premier League these days, fate can still overtake all the best-laid preparations.
(16) China is poised to overtake India to become the world's biggest market for gold this year thanks to soaring investment purchases of bullion and steadily rising jewellery sales, according to the World Gold Council's annual report.
(17) Market share at Sainsbury's, the UK's third biggest food retailer, remained flat following months of growth that had pushed it close to overtaking its rival Asda .
(18) RBC and Capgemini analysts said the Asia-Pacific region would almost certainly overtake north America this year.
(19) This was the first year that men aged 45 to 59 showed the highest suicide rate, 25.1 per 100,000, overtaking those aged 30 to 44, who had previously recorded the highest rate from 1995 to 2012.
(20) Rees, who was promoted to editorial director at the publishers NatMag-Rodale in April , has overseen a recession-bucking 15-month run of year-on-year sales increases to see his title overtake FHM as the biggest-selling men's magazine in the first half of this year.