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ˌæp rɪˈhɛndap·pre·hend
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Wiktionary
apprehendverb
Synonyms:
seize, fear, dread, arrest, believe, capture, imagine, understand, detain, catch, conceiveapprehendverb
To take or seize; to take hold of.
Synonyms:
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.
Synonyms:
anticipate, expect, forecast, foretaste, hope, look forward toAntonyms:
despair of, distrust, doubt, doubt, dread, fear, recall, recollect, remember
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
apprehend
Synonyms:
comprehend, understand, take, expect, seize, conceive, arrest, fancy, dread, imagine, presume, anticipate, fear, conjectureAntonyms:
ignore, miss, lose, misconjecture, misconceive, misapprehend, misanticipate
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?"
Synonyms:
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
Synonyms:
dig, nail, savvy, collar, arrest, pick up, nab, grok, quail at, compass, get the picture, comprehend, grasp, cop
Dictionary of English Synonymes
apprehendverb
Synonyms:
seize, arrest, take, take prisonerapprehendverb
Synonyms:
conceive, imagine, see, perceive, believe, know, COMPREHENDapprehendverb
Synonyms:
fear, dread, think of with fearapprehendverb
Synonyms:
think, suppose, imagine, conceive, fancy, OPINE, hold, ween, presume, be of opinion, take it, entertain the idea
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
apprehendverb
Synonyms:
arrest, seize, understand, recognize, consider believe, anticipate, dread, fear
PPDB, the paraphrase database
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #64 | see | |
| #77 | get | |
| #246 | take | |
| #272 | check | |
| #424 | learn | |
| #522 | complete | |
| #846 | cover | |
| #909 | receive | |
| #1038 | stop | |
| #1069 | believe | |
| #1086 | hope | |
| #1275 | hold | |
| #1312 | understand | |
| #1736 | hear | |
| #2137 | labor | |
| #2323 | expect | |
| #2693 | forecast | |
| #2700 | contain | |
| #2824 | fear | |
| #2995 | discover | |
| #3526 | labour | |
| #3635 | catch | |
| #4006 | capture | |
| #4090 | imagine | |
| #4363 | collect | |
| #5613 | hook | |
| #5688 | ace | |
| #6477 | blast | |
| #6667 | nail | |
| #6823 | fancy | |
| #7386 | boom | |
| #7523 | arrest | |
| #7597 | collar | |
| #7788 | dig | |
| #9382 | cop | |
| #9566 | hollow | |
| #10647 | compass | |
| #10795 | embrace | |
| #11946 | peg | |
| #12576 | prod | |
| #13142 | grasp | |
| #13346 | smash | |
| #13468 | savvy | |
| #13959 | halt | |
| #14126 | anticipate | |
| #15304 | perceive | |
| #15427 | grind | |
| #17739 | peck | |
| #18031 | seize | |
| #19676 | dread | |
| #19711 | stab | |
| #20259 | encompass | |
| #20854 | poke | |
| #21181 | comprehend | |
| #21586 | pinpoint | |
| #22736 | conjecture | |
| #22827 | conceive | |
| #22857 | presume | |
| #25036 | drudge | |
| #28457 | nab | |
| #29951 | travail | |
| #30578 | apprehension | |
| #30734 | uplift | |
| #31630 | jab | |
| #34141 | delve | |
| #35150 | toil | |
| #40155 | detain | |
| #45478 | perk | |
| #53441 | apprehend | |
| #61869 | snitch | |
| #64307 | grok | |
| #76481 | excavate | |
| #107584 | apprehending | |
| #118560 | percolate | |
| #139379 | foretaste | |
| #168027 | circumnavigate | |
| #176380 | glom | |
| #227814 | intoxicate | |
| #239454 | moil | |
| #290132 | elate | |
| #323789 | thieve |
How to use apprehend in a sentence?
Smash-and-grab mobs are an affront to the hard work and safety of shoppers, retail workers and shopkeepers throughout the region, the expanded investment in license plate reader cameras add to the larger tool set law enforcement uses to apprehend organized burglary rings.
Our police department worked diligently to find and apprehend the suspect of this terrible crime. It's tragic when these types of events happen, especially to the most innocent.
They were able to apprehend the suspect in the downtown area.
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.
If you apprehend a criminal after one offense that would have committed five, you have actually prevented crime.
Translations for apprehend
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- قب� علىArabic
- долавям, схващам, хващам, опасявам се, арестувам, задържамBulgarian
- aprehendreCatalan, Valencian
- pågribeDanish
- festnehmen, begreifen, fangenGerman
- comprender, detener, coger, temer, captar, entender, capturar, aprehender, prender, percibirSpanish
- درک کردنPersian
- appréhenderFrench
- snappen, begrijpen, vattenDutch
- capturar, apreender, prender, deterPortuguese
- chapayQuechua
- задержать, арестоватьRussian
- aretirati, prijeti, pojmiti, bati seSlovene
- gripa, greppa, förståSwedish
- จับกุมThai
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