Apprehend
[æprɪ'hend] or [,æprɪ'hɛnd]
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.
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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.
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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
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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
- I do not apprehend your meaning. Plato. The Republic.
- I send it you now, because I apprehend some late accidents are likely to revive the contest between the two countries. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- You don't apprehend any more violence, do you? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There is nothing to apprehend. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But here it was with the utmost difficulty that I brought him to apprehend what I meant. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- That she is a gentleman's daughter, is indubitable to me; that she associates with gentlemen's daughters, no one, I apprehend, will deny. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Who dares apprehend me? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Ursula had apprehended him with a fine FRISSON of attraction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And what danger is to be apprehended, Caroline, when daylight _is_ gone? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Now, with regard to the party to be apprehended. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Now, these are to be apprehended by reason and intelligence, but not by sight. Plato. The Republic.
- In the hands of a skillful physician practically no danger is to be apprehended from the use of either of the two agents. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I apprehended it to be a rock, and found myself tossed more than ever. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The Princes of the Protestant countries when they seized upon the national churches early apprehended the necessity of gripping the universities also. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I trembled violently, apprehending some dreadful misfortune. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- You may sit down, Sam,' said Mr. Pickwick, apprehending that the interview was likely to prove rather longer than he had expected. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Another proclamation has been issued, offering a great reward for apprehending the murderers. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But also, she knew what he was unconscious of, his tremendous power of understanding, of apprehending her living motion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In short, she declares she apprehends a convulsion fit. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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