APPREHEND
\ˌapɹɪhˈɛnd], \ˌapɹɪhˈɛnd], \ˌa_p_ɹ_ɪ_h_ˈɛ_n_d]\
Definitions of APPREHEND
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1910 - Black's Law Dictionary (2nd edition)
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
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anticipate with dread or anxiety
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get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
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take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
By Princeton University
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anticipate with dread or anxiety
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get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
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take into custody, as of suspected criminals, by the police
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To take or seize; to take hold of.
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Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
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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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To know or learn with certainty.
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To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
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To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
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To be apprehensive; to fear.
By Oddity Software
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To take or seize; to take hold of.
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Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
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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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To know or learn with certainty.
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To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
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To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
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To be apprehensive; to fear.
By Noah Webster.
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To take or lay hold of; seize; arrest; take mental hold of; as, to apprehend the meaning of a statement; anticipate or expect, usually, with fear.
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To incline to believe; suppose; catch the idea or meaning; to look forward with fear.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To lay hold of: to seize by authority: to catch the meaning of: to understand: to fear.
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APPREHENSIBLE.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To grasp mentally; perceive.
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To have an impression of.
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To expect with anxious foreboding.
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To arrest; seize.
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To suppose; surmise; conjecture.
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To look forward with foreboding.
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To perceive.
By James Champlin Fernald
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To take hold of, whether with the mind, and so to conceive, believe, fear, dread, (Trogdon v. State, 133 Ind. I, 32 N. E. 725;) or actually and bodily, and so to take a person on a criminal process ; to seize; to arrest, (Hogan v. Stophlet, 179 111. 150, 53 N. E. 604, 44 L. R. A. 809.)
By Henry Campbell Black
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ap-pre-hend', 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. [L. apprehend[)e]re--ad, to, prehend[)e]re, -hensum, to lay hold of.]
By Thomas Davidson
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