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What (who) is Apprehend - definition

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Apprehension (disambiguation); Apprehend; Apprehending; Apprehended

Apprehend

·vt To know or learn with certainty.

II. Apprehend ·vt To take or seize; to take hold of.

III. Apprehend ·vi To be apprehensive; to Fear.

IV. Apprehend ·vi To think, believe, or be of opinion; to Understand; to Suppose.

V. Apprehend ·vt Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to Arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.

VI. Apprehend ·vt To Anticipate; ·esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to Fear.

VII. Apprehend ·vt To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to Understand; to Recognize; to Consider.

apprehend

(apprehends, apprehending, apprehended)

If the police apprehend someone, they catch them and arrest them. (FORMAL)

Police have not apprehended her killer.

= catch

VERB: V n

apprehend

I. v. a.

1.

Seize, arrest, take, catch, detain, capture, take prisoner.

2.

Conceive, imagine, look at, regard, view.

3.

See (mentally), perceive, realize, understand, take in, appreciate, take the meaning or point of.

4.

Fear, forebode, have a presentiment of.

II. v. n.

Think, suppose, imagine, conceive, fancy, hold, ween, presume, be of opinion, take it. See opine.

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Apprehension

Apprehension may refer to:

Apprehension (understanding), awareness or understanding of something by the mind
Arrest by law-enforcement officers
Fear
Anxiety
Apprehension (film), a 1982 film by Lothar Warneke

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprehension

Examples of use of Apprehend

1. Community support officers currently have no power to apprehend truants.

2. Police managed to free the woman and apprehend Kostyakin. «

3. A police cadet studying at the university helped apprehend Hiraman.

4. I‘m about to apprehend a plain clothes policeman." Cunning villain.

5. "On February 28, we prepared to apprehend him again.