Synonyms for apprehend
ˌæp rɪˈhɛndap·pre·hend

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1. apprehendverb

   Synonyms:
   seize, fear, dread, arrest, believe, capture, imagine, understand, detain, catch, conceive

2. apprehendverb

   To take or seize; to take hold of.

   Synonyms:
   catch, dread, conceive, capture, understand, fear, seize, arrest, detain, imagine, believe

3. apprehendverb

   To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest.

   to apprehend a criminal.

   Synonyms:
   dread, conceive, detain, capture, seize, understand, catch, believe, imagine, fear, arrest

4. apprehendverb

   To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.

   Synonyms:
   catch, detain, imagine, believe, conceive, fear, capture, dread, arrest, understand, seize

5. apprehendverb

   To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.

   Synonyms:
   arrest, capture, conceive, understand, imagine, believe, fear, seize, catch, dread, detain

6. apprehendverb

   To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.

   Synonyms:
   seize, conceive, believe, fear, understand, detain, capture, arrest, catch, dread, imagine

7. apprehendverb

   To be apprehensive; to fear.

   Synonyms:
   arrest, conceive, detain, imagine, catch, seize, believe, dread, understand, fear, capture

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1. 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 to

   Antonyms:
   despair of, distrust, doubt, doubt, dread, fear, recall, recollect, remember

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1. apprehend

   Synonyms:
   comprehend, understand, take, expect, seize, conceive, arrest, fancy, dread, imagine, presume, anticipate, fear, conjecture

   Antonyms:
   ignore, miss, lose, misconjecture, misconceive, misapprehend, misanticipate

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1. 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 out

2. collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, copverb

   take into custody

   "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"

   Synonyms:
   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, check

3. apprehend, 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

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1. apprehendverb

   Synonyms:
   seize, arrest, take, take prisoner

2. apprehendverb

   Synonyms:
   conceive, imagine, see, perceive, believe, know, COMPREHEND

3. apprehendverb

   Synonyms:
   fear, dread, think of with fear

4. apprehendverb

   Synonyms:
   think, suppose, imagine, conceive, fancy, OPINE, hold, ween, presume, be of opinion, take it, entertain the idea

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1. apprehendverb

   Synonyms:
   arrest, seize, understand, recognize, consider believe, anticipate, dread, fear

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1. List of paraphrases for "apprehend":

   arrest, apprehending, detain, stop, capture, apprehension

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How to use apprehend in a sentence?

1. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

   Israel takes a strong line against terrorism regardless of who the perpetrators are. I have ordered the security forces to use all means at their disposal to apprehend the murderers and bring them to justice.

2. H. G. Wells:

   I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

3. Donald Trump:

   Mexico has been absolutely terrific in the past four days. they're apprehending everybody. Yesterday they apprehended 1,400 people. The day before it was a thousand. And if they apprehend people at their southern border, that's a big home run.

4. Farooq Kperogi:

   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.

5. Greg Abbott:

   Once it is completed, it will have multiple detection devices, people we apprehend will be charged with trespassing to the state of Texas, and those charges will lead to them going to jail.