What are some opposite words for apprehend?
Antonyms for apprehend
ˌæp rɪˈhɛndap·pre·hend
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apprehendverb
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seize, fear, dread, arrest, believe, capture, imagine, understand, detain, catch, conceiveapprehendverb
To take or seize; to take hold of.
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catch, dread, conceive, capture, understand, fear, seize, arrest, detain, imagine, believeapprehendverb
To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
to apprehend a criminal.
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dread, conceive, detain, capture, seize, understand, catch, believe, imagine, fear, arrestapprehendverb
To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
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catch, detain, imagine, believe, conceive, fear, capture, dread, arrest, understand, seizeapprehendverb
To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
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arrest, capture, conceive, understand, imagine, believe, fear, seize, catch, dread, detainapprehendverb
To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
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seize, conceive, believe, fear, understand, detain, capture, arrest, catch, dread, imagineapprehendverb
To be apprehensive; to fear.
Synonyms:
arrest, conceive, detain, imagine, catch, seize, believe, dread, understand, fear, capture
English Synonyms and Antonyms
apprehend
To anticipate may be either to take before in fact or to take before in thought; in the former sense it is allied with prevent; in the latter, with the synonyms above given. This is coming to be the prevalent and favorite use. We expect that which we have good reason to believe will happen; as, a boy expects to grow to manhood. We hope for that which we much desire and somewhat expect. We apprehend what we both expect and fear. Anticipate is commonly used now, like foretaste, of that which we expect both with confidence and pleasure. In this use it is a stronger word than hope, where often "the wish is father to the thought." I hope for a visit from my friend, tho I have no word from him; I expect it when he writes that he is coming; and as the time draws near I anticipate it with pleasure. Compare ABIDE; PREVENT.
Antonyms:
despair of, distrust, doubt, doubt, dread, fear, recall, recollect, rememberSynonyms:
anticipate, expect, forecast, foretaste, hope, look forward to
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
apprehend
Antonyms:
ignore, miss, lose, misconjecture, misconceive, misapprehend, misanticipateSynonyms:
comprehend, understand, take, expect, seize, conceive, arrest, fancy, dread, imagine, presume, anticipate, fear, conjecture
Princeton's WordNet
grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehendverb
get the meaning of something
"Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
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quail at, compass, delve, embrace, toil, grind, dig, nail, drudge, moil, encompass, dig up, arrest, jab, poke, cut into, nab, collar, grasp, prod, travail, labour, get the picture, hollow, stab, cop, hold on, comprehend, turn over, excavate, pick up, perceive, cover, savvy, labor, grok, circumnavigate, dig outcollar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, copverb
take into custody
"the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
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quail at, cop, uplift, peck, hook, savvy, hear, complete, get, dig, percolate, hold back, nail, glom, nail down, pass with flying colors, perk up, smash, arrest, gather up, get word, nab, snitch, boom, call for, see, find out, turn back, grasp, perk, halt, gain vigor, knock off, ace, compass, receive, sweep through, stop, sail through, get the picture, pinpoint, collar, turn around, get a line, comprehend, lift up, peg, intoxicate, pick up, breeze through, contain, elate, catch, thieve, blast, grok, learn, get wind, hold, collect, discover, checkapprehend, quail atverb
anticipate with dread or anxiety
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dig, nail, savvy, collar, arrest, pick up, nab, grok, quail at, compass, get the picture, comprehend, grasp, cop
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
apprehendverb
Synonyms:
arrest, seize, understand, recognize, consider believe, anticipate, dread, fear
How to use apprehend in a sentence?
Attorney General Loretta Lynch:
Our nation faces a host of serious, varied and evolving challenges. Our highest priority must always be the security of our homeland, and we are acting aggressively to diffuse threats, we continue to investigate and apprehend those who seek to harm us, including upwards of 70 individuals charged since 2013 for conduct related to foreign fighter activity, and home-grown violent extremism.
When Congress in 1996 enacted sweeping immigration enforcement legislation — putting in place the expedited removal system that today allows Border Patrol agents to quickly deport people Border Patrol agents apprehend without any court process — it specifically created the credible fear process to preserve the right of people to seek asylum when they are apprehended between the ports of entry, congress did that knowing that if it circumscribed the right to seek protection, then it would run afoul of our obligations under Tom Jawetz and international law to not return people to face persecution abroad. The interim final rule issued today acknowledges this history even as it attempts to undo it entirely.
Sadly, this sort of consequence-free murder of people in the name of avenging' blasphemy' has been going on for far too long in the North. This must stop ! the monsters in that video are easily identifiable. The Sokoto State government must immediately apprehend them and make an example of them. If The Sokoto State government doesn't happen, this kind of murderous barbarism will continue.
The majority of UC are cared for through a network of state licensed ORR-funded care providers, most of which are located close to areas where immigration officials apprehend large numbers of children. These provider facilities are state licensed and must meet ORR requirements to ensure a high level of quality of care. Care providers operate under cooperative agreements and contract.
Our player, who is in St. Louis for our rookie camp, is safe as local authorities work to apprehend the suspect, we will have no further comment at this time.
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