Apprehend

[æprɪ'hend] or [,æprɪ'hɛnd]

Definition

(verb.) anticipate with dread or anxiety.

Inputed by Elliot--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To take or seize; to take hold of.

(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.

Inputed by Gerard

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Seize, arrest, take, take prisoner.[2]. Conceive, imagine, see, perceive, believe, know, COMPREHEND.[3]. Fear, dread, think of with fear.

v. n. Think, suppose, imagine, conceive, fancy, OPINE, hold, ween, presume, be of opinion, take it, entertain the idea.

Checked by Harlan

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Comprehend, understand, take, expect, seize, conceive, arrest, fancy, dread,imagine, presume, anticipate, fear, conjecture

ANT:Ignore, miss, lose, misconjecture, misconceive, misapprehend, misanticipate

Typed by Cecil

Definition

v.t. to lay hold of: to seize by authority: to be conscious of by means of the senses: to lay hold of by the intellect: to catch the meaning of: to consider or hold a thing as such: to fear.—n. Apprehensibil′ity.—adj. Apprehens′ible.—n. Apprehen′sion act of apprehending or seizing: arrest: (arch.) conscious perception: conception: ability to understand: fear: (obs.) sensitiveness sensibility to.—adj. Apprehens′ive pertaining to the laying hold of sensuous and mental impressions: intelligent clever: having an apprehension or notion of: fearful: anticipative of something adverse.—n. Apprehens′iveness.

Typist: Margery

Examples

Typed by Arlene

About(关于我们)|Sitemap(网站地图)

Copyright © 2018 EnMama.net. All rights reserved.