Meaning of word apprehended

Словосочетания

apprehended damage — предполагаемый ущерб  
apprehended loss — предполагаемый убыток  
apprehended person — задержанный  
apprehended vessel — задержанное судно  
apprehended losses — предполагаемые убытки  

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Возможные однокоренные слова

apprehend  — задерживать, опасаться, понимать, предчувствовать, постигать, арестовывать

Last Updated:
14 Apr 2023
— Updated example sentences

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  apprehend
  
  

  1) понима́ть, схва́тывать

  2) заде́рживать, аресто́вывать

  3) предчу́вствовать (что-л. дурное), ожида́ть ( несчастья), опаса́ться;

  Англо-русский словарь Мюллера > apprehend

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  Персональный Сократ > apprehend

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  [ˌæprɪˈhend]

  apprehend арестовывать, задерживать apprehend арестовывать apprehend задерживать, арестовывать apprehend задерживать apprehend понимать, схватывать apprehend предчувствовать (что-л. дурное), ожидать (несчастья), опасаться; to apprehend danger чуять опасность apprehend предчувствовать (что-л. дурное), ожидать (несчастья), опасаться; to apprehend danger чуять опасность

  English-Russian short dictionary > apprehend

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  Англо-русский синонимический словарь > apprehend

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  [͵æprıʹhend]

  1. предчувствовать, предвидеть, предполагать (); опасаться; ждать () со страхом

  to apprehend the aggravation of a malady — предполагать ухудшение в ходе болезни

  to apprehend a change of weather — ожидать, что погода испортится

  2. арестовывать; задерживать

  to apprehend a thief [a deserter] — задержать /схватить/ вора [дезертира]

  3.

  , книжн. постигать, понимать

  you are, I apprehend, ready to pay — вы, как я понимаю, готовы уплатить

  НБАРС > apprehend

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  ˌæprɪˈhend гл.
  1) понимать, постигать, разгадывать, схватывать To apprehend distinctly the signification of a number, two things are necessary. ≈ Чтобы четко понять, что означает категория числа, необходимо наличие как минимум двух объектов. Syn: capture
  2) предчувствовать( что-л. дурное), ожидать( несчастья), опасаться to apprehend danger ≈ чуять опасность
  3) арестовывать, задерживать A justice of the peace cannot issue a warrant to apprehend a felon upon bare suspicion. ≈ Мировой судья не может дать ордер на арест преступника, основываясь на голом подозрении. Syn: capture

  apprehend арестовывать, задерживать ~ арестовывать ~ задерживать, арестовывать ~ задерживать ~ понимать, схватывать ~ предчувствовать (что-л. дурное), ожидать (несчастья), опасаться;
  to apprehend danger чуять опасность

  ~ предчувствовать (что-л. дурное), ожидать (несчастья), опасаться;
  to apprehend danger чуять опасность

  Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > apprehend

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  1. v предчувствовать, предвидеть, предполагать; опасаться; ждать со страхом

  2. v арестовывать; задерживать

  3. v арх. книжн. постигать, понимать

  Синонимический ряд:

  1. arrest (verb) arrest; capture; catch; detain; nab; pick up; pinch; pull in; run in; seize

  2. be afraid (verb) be afraid; distrust; dread; fear; have apprehensions; mistrust

  3. foresee (verb) anticipate; divine; forefeel; foreknow; foresee; preknow; previse; prevision; visualize

  4. see (verb) accept; appreciate; cognize; compass; comprehend; conceive; cotton on to; cotton to; fathom; follow; grasp; have; know; make out; perceive; read; recognise; recognize; see; take; take in; tumble to; twig; understand

  Антонимический ряд:

  lose; misapprehend; misconceive; miss; misunderstand; release

  English-Russian base dictionary > apprehend

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  [ˌæprɪ’hend]

  гл.

  1) понимать, постигать, разгадывать, схватывать

  To apprehend distinctly the signification of a number, two things are necessary. — Чтобы чётко понять, что означает категория числа, необходимы две вещи.

  Syn:

  3) арестовывать, задерживать

  A justice of the peace cannot issue a warrant to apprehend a felon upon bare suspicion. — Мировой судья не может дать ордер на арест преступника, основываясь на одном лишь подозрении.

  Syn:

  Англо-русский современный словарь > apprehend

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  [ˌæprɪ’hend]

  v

  испытывать опасения, испытывать страхи, опасаться, ожидать, предчувствовать (дурное), чуять

  — apprehend danger

  
  — apprehend a change of weather
  — apprehend troubles

  English-Russian combinatory dictionary > apprehend

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  verb

  1) понимать, схватывать

  2) предчувствовать (что-л. дурное), ожидать (несчастья), опасаться; to apprehend danger чуять опасность

  3) задерживать, арестовывать

  Syn:

  capture

  * * *

  (v) опасаться; постигать; постигнуть; постичь; предчувствовать

  * * *

  понимать, постигать, разгадывать, схватывать

  * * *

  [ap·pre·hend || ‚æprɪ’hend]
  предчувствовать, ожидать, опасаться; арестовывать, задерживать, схватывать; постигать, понимать

  * * *

  арестовывать

  восхитить

  восхищать

  задержать

  задерживать

  захватить

  захватывать

  ожидать

  опасаться

  осознайте

  побаиваться

  понимать

  предчувствовать

  схватывать

  увлекать

  * * *

  1) понимать
  2) предчувствовать (что-л. дурное), ожидать (несчастья)
  3) арестовывать

  Новый англо-русский словарь > apprehend

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  Patent terms dictionary > apprehend

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  v юр.

  арестовывать, задерживать

  English-russian dctionary of diplomacy > apprehend

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  [ˌæprɪ’hend]

  1) Общая лексика: арестовать, арестовывать, бояться, ждать со страхом , задержать, задерживать, ожидать , ожидать несчастья, опасаться, оценить, понимать, понять, предвидеть, предполагать , предчувствовать , схватывать, постигать

  3) юр.Н.П. задержать , задерживать , арестовать , арестовывать

  Универсальный англо-русский словарь > apprehend

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  задерживать; арестовывать

  * * *

  1) /vt/ предчувствовать; 2) /vt, person object/ задерживать

  Англо-русский юридический словарь > apprehend

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  [ˏæprɪ`hend]

  понимать, постигать, разгадывать, схватывать

  предчувствовать, ожидать, опасаться

  арестовывать, задерживать

  Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь > apprehend

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  v

  арестовывать, задерживать, брать под стражу

  Politics english-russian dictionary > apprehend

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  понимать, осознавать; предчувствовать, ожидать, схватывать (в общих чертах), опасаться

  Англо-русский словарь по психоаналитике > apprehend

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  опасаться; предчувствовать; осознавать

  English-Russian dictionary of technical terms > apprehend

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  задергосударствожа́ть, арестова́ть

  The Americanisms. English-Russian dictionary. > apprehend

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  арестовывать

  восхитить

  восхищать

  задержать

  задерживать

  захватить

  захватывать

  ожидать

  опасаться

  осознайте

  побаиваться

  понимать

  предчувствовать

  схватывать

  увлекать

  English-Russian smart dictionary > apprehend

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ap·pre·hend

 (ăp′rĭ-hĕnd′)

v. ap·pre·hend·ed, ap·pre·hend·ing, ap·pre·hends

v.tr.

1. To take into custody; arrest: apprehended the murderer.

2. To grasp mentally; understand: «Science is the systematic method by which we apprehend what is true about the real world in which we live» (Richard Dawkins). See Synonyms at understand.

3. To become conscious of, as through the emotions or senses; perceive: «She began to look with her own eyes; to see and to apprehend the deeper undercurrents of life» (Kate Chopin).

4. Archaic To anticipate with worry or dread.

v.intr.

To understand something.

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[Middle English apprehenden, from Old French apprehender, from Latin apprehendere, to seize : ad-, ad- + prehendere, to grasp; see ghend- in Indo-European roots.]

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ap′pre·hend′er n.

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apprehend

(ˌæprɪˈhɛnd)

vb

1. (Law) (tr) to arrest and escort into custody; seize

2. to perceive or grasp mentally; understand

3. (tr) to await with fear or anxiety; dread

[C14: from Latin apprehendere to lay hold of]

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ap•pre•hend

(ˌæp rɪˈhɛnd)

v.t.

1. to take into custody; arrest by legal warrant or authority: The police apprehended the burglars.

2. to grasp the meaning of; understand, esp. intuitively; perceive.

3. to expect with anxiety, suspicion, or fear; anticipate: apprehending violence.

v.i.

4. to understand: To apprehend was to forgive.

5. to be apprehensive, suspicious, or fearful; fear.

[1350–1400; < Latin apprehendere to grasp = ap-¹ + prehendere to seize]

ap`pre•hend′er, n.

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apprehend

Past participle: apprehended
Gerund: apprehending

Imperative
apprehend
apprehend

Present
I apprehend
you apprehend
he/she/it apprehends
we apprehend
you apprehend
they apprehend

Preterite
I apprehended
you apprehended
he/she/it apprehended
we apprehended
you apprehended
they apprehended

Present Continuous
I am apprehending
you are apprehending
he/she/it is apprehending
we are apprehending
you are apprehending
they are apprehending

Present Perfect
I have apprehended
you have apprehended
he/she/it has apprehended
we have apprehended
you have apprehended
they have apprehended

Past Continuous
I was apprehending
you were apprehending
he/she/it was apprehending
we were apprehending
you were apprehending
they were apprehending

Past Perfect
I had apprehended
you had apprehended
he/she/it had apprehended
we had apprehended
you had apprehended
they had apprehended

Future
I will apprehend
you will apprehend
he/she/it will apprehend
we will apprehend
you will apprehend
they will apprehend

Future Perfect
I will have apprehended
you will have apprehended
he/she/it will have apprehended
we will have apprehended
you will have apprehended
they will have apprehended

Future Continuous
I will be apprehending
you will be apprehending
he/she/it will be apprehending
we will be apprehending
you will be apprehending
they will be apprehending

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been apprehending
you have been apprehending
he/she/it has been apprehending
we have been apprehending
you have been apprehending
they have been apprehending

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been apprehending
you will have been apprehending
he/she/it will have been apprehending
we will have been apprehending
you will have been apprehending
they will have been apprehending

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been apprehending
you had been apprehending
he/she/it had been apprehending
we had been apprehending
you had been apprehending
they had been apprehending

Conditional
I would apprehend
you would apprehend
he/she/it would apprehend
we would apprehend
you would apprehend
they would apprehend

Past Conditional
I would have apprehended
you would have apprehended
he/she/it would have apprehended
we would have apprehended
you would have apprehended
they would have apprehended

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Verb	1.	apprehend — get the meaning of something; «Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?» understand — know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; «She did not understand her husband»; «I understand what she means» figure — understand; «He didn’t figure her» intuit — know or grasp by intuition or feeling digest — arrange and integrate in the mind; «I cannot digest all this information»
	2.	apprehend — take into custody; «the police nabbed the suspected criminals» clutch, prehend, seize — take hold of; grab; «The sales clerk quickly seized the money on the counter»; «She clutched her purse»; «The mother seized her child by the arm»; «Birds of prey often seize small mammals»
	3.	apprehend — anticipate with dread or anxiety

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apprehend

verb

1. arrest, catch, lift (slang), nick (slang, chiefly Brit.), capture, seize, run in (slang), take, nail (informal), bust (informal), collar (informal), pinch (informal), nab (informal), take prisoner, feel your collar (slang) Police have not apprehended her killer.
arrest free, release, discharge, liberate, let go

2. understand, know, think, believe, imagine, realize, recognize, appreciate, perceive, grasp, conceive, comprehend, get the message, get the picture Only now can I begin to apprehend the power of these forces.
understand miss, misunderstand, be unaware of, be unconscious of, be at cross-purposes, misapprehend, misconceive, get your lines crossed

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apprehend

verb

1. To take into custody as a prisoner:

2. To perceive directly with the intellect:

3. To perceive and recognize the meaning of:

accept, catch (on), compass, comprehend, conceive, fathom, follow, get, grasp, make out, read, see, sense, take, take in, understand.

Chiefly British: twig.

4. To be intuitively aware of:

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Translations

يَعْتَقِل، يُلْقي القَبْض عَلىيَفْهَم

chápatporozumětzatknout

anholdearrestereforståpågribe

skiljataka til fanga

areštuotibūgštavimasnerimaujantissu nerimusulaikyti

aizturētapjēgtarestētsaprast

apprehend

[ˌæprɪˈhend] (frm) VT

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apprehend

[ˌæprɪˈhɛnd] vt

[+ suspect, criminal, offender, murderer, culprit] → appréhender, arrêter

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apprehend

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Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

apprehend

(apriˈhend) verb

1. to arrest. The police apprehended the thief.

ˌappreˈhension (-ʃən) noun

1. fear.

ˌappreˈhensive (-siv) adjective

anxious; worried. an apprehensive expression.

ˌappreˈhensively adverbˌappreˈhensiveness noun

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Late Middle English apprehenden (“to grasp, take hold of; to comprehend; to learn”),^[1] from Old French apprehender (modern French appréhender (“to apprehend; to catch; to dread”)), from Latin apprehendere, adprehendere, the present active infinitive of apprehendō, adprehendō (“to grab, grasp, seize, take; to apprehend, arrest; to comprehend, understand; to embrace, include; to take possession of, obtain, secure”), from ap-, ad- (prefix meaning ‘to’) + prehendō (“to grab, grasp, seize, snatch, take; to accost; to catch in the act, take by surprise; (figuratively, rare) of the mind: to apprehend, comprehend, grasp”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to hold, seize, take; to find”)).^[2]

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /æpɹiˈhɛnd/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnd
• Hyphenation: ap‧pre‧hend

Verb[edit]

apprehend (third-person singular simple present apprehends, present participle apprehending, simple past and past participle apprehended) (transitive)

1. (transitive)
   1. To be or become aware of (something); to perceive.

      • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of the Signification of Spirit, Angel, and Inspiration in the Books of Holy Scripture”, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, third part (Of a Christian Common-wealth), page 212:

        […] Angel ſignifieth there, nothing but God himſelf, that cauſed Agar ſupernaturally to apprehend a voice from heaven; or rather, nothing elſe but a Voice ſupernaturall, teſtifying Gods ſpeciall preſence there.

      • 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar)​, [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], published 1719, →OCLC, page 70:

        [A]s to the barrel [of gunpowder] that had been wet, I did not apprehend any Danger from that; ſo I plac’d it in my new Cave, which in my Fancy I call’d my Kitchin, and the reſt I hid up and down in Holes among the Rocks, ſo that no wet might come to it, marking very carefully where I laid it.

      • 1832, Charles Simeon, “[2 Kings.] The Hypocrisy of Gehazi.”, in Horæ Homilecticæ: Or Discourses (Principally in the Form of Skeletons) Now First Digested into One Continued Series, and Forming a Commentary upon Every Book of the Old and New Testament; […], volume III (Judges to Second Book of Kings), London: Holdsworth and Ball, […], →OCLC, page 500:

        From thy composure on the occasion it was evident, that thou expectedst to reap the fruit of thine iniquity in peace; and that, when thou repliedst, «All is well,» thou apprehendedst no evil. But didst thou forget that God saw thee?

   2. To acknowledge the existence of (something); to recognize.

      • 1872, Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza 71, page 85:

        [E]ach man for his own sake / Accepts you as his guide, avails him of what worth / He apprehends in you to sublimate his earth / With fire: […]

   3. To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.

      Synonyms: catch, get

      • 1569, [Reginald] Pole, chapter IIII, in [Thomas Copley?], transl., A Treatie of Iustification. […], Leuven: […] Ioannem Foulerum, →OCLC, 2nd book (Declaring the Second Danger), folio 41:

        If to apprehend Chriſte be vnderſtanded, to dvvell in Chriſte, and to haue him dvvell in vs, it is not true that Chriſte is apprehended in that ſorte, by onely faith vvithout charitie. […] He apprehendeth Chriſte truely, that cleaueth vnto Chriſt, and the glue vvhereby the ſovvle is fastned vnto Chriſte, ſaith S. Auguſtine, is charitie: […]

      • 1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Fatall Jealousies betwixt the King and Reimund Earl of Tripoli”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book II, page 100:

        This ſuſpicion of Earl Reimund, though at firſt but a buzze, ſoon got a ſting in the Kings head, and he violently apprehended it.

      • 1674, [Richard Allestree], “Of Boasting”, in The Government of the Tongue. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Theater, →OCLC, page 168:

        We ſee in all things how deſuetude do’s contract and narrow our faculties, ſo that we may apprehend only thoſe things wherein we are converſant.

      • 1684, John Bunyan, “ A Holy Life the Beauty of Christianity: Or, An Exhortation to Christians to be Holy”, in Henry Stebbing, editor, The Entire Works of John Bunyan, […], volume III, London: James S[prent] Virtue, […], published 1862, →OCLC, page 305, column 2:

        There are three things in faith that directly tend to make a man depart from iniquity. (1.) It apprehendeth the truth of the being, and greatness of God, and so it aweth the spirit of a man. (2.) It apprehendeth the love of this God in Christ, and so it conquereth and overcometh the spirit of a man. (3.) It apprehendeth the sweetness and blessedness of the nature of the godhead, and thence persuadeth the soul to desire here communion with him, that it may be holy, and the enjoyment of him when this world is ended, that it may be happy in and by him for ever.
   4. To have a conception of (something); to consider, to regard.

      Synonyms: believe, gather, reckon

      • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 82, column 1:

        Tim[on]. That’s a laſciuious apprehenſion. / Ape[mantus]. So, thou apprehend’ſt it, / Take it for thy labour.

      • 1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Corasines Cruelly Sack the City of Jerusalem and Kill the Christians therein”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book IV, page 183:

        In ſtead therefore of giving them a houſe, he ſent them to a work-houſe; yet ſo, that they apprehended it a great courteſie done unto them: For he beſtowed on them all the lands which the Chriſtians held in Paleſtine; […]

      • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of Dæmonology, and Other Reliques of the Religion of the Gentiles”, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, fourth part (Of the Kingdome of Darknesse), page 363:

        [A]t this day, the ignorant People, where Images are worſhipped, doe really beleeve there is a Divine Power in the Images; and are told by their Paſtors, that ſome of them have ſpoken; and have bled; and that miracles have been done by them; which they apprehended as done by the Saint, which they think either is the Image it ſelf, or in it.

      • 1858, W[illiam] E[wart] Gladstone, “Sect. I. On the Plot of the Iliad.”, in Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age. […], volume III, Oxford, Oxfordshire: University Press, →OCLC, part IV (Aoidos), page 393:

        […] Erinūs, who, in so many particular passages of the poems, makes miniature appearances in order to vindicate the eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them, likewise presides in full development over the general action of each of these extraordinary poems.

   5. To anticipate (something, usually unpleasant); especially, to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear; to dread, to fear.
      • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 76, column 2:

        Duke. Hath he borne himſelfe penitently in priſon? How ſeemes he to be touch’d? / Pro[vost]. A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully, but as a drunken ſleepe, careleſſe, wreakleſſe, and feareleſſe of what’s paſt, preſent, or to come: inſenſible of mortality, and deſperately mortall.

      • 1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “The First Part”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, →OCLC, section 54, page 115:

        There is no ſalvation to thoſe that beleeve not in Chriſt, that is ſay ſome, ſince his Nativity, and as Divinity affirmeth, before alſo; which makes me much apprehend the ends of thoſe honeſt Worthies and Philoſophers which died before his incarnation.

      • 1749, Henry Fielding, “The Character of Mr. ’’Square’’ the Philosopher, and of Mr. ’’Thwackum’’ the Divine; with a Dispute Concerning ——”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book III, page 168:

        [T]he Parſon had concluded his Speech with a triumphant Queſtion, to which he had apprehended no Anſwer; viz. Can any Honour exiſt independent on Religion?

      • 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter II, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 260:

        The king determined to try once more the experiment of a dissolution [of parliament]. A new parliament was summoned to meet at Oxford, in March, 1681. […] The university was devoted to the crown; and the gentry of the neighbourhood were generally Tories. Here, therefore, the opposition had more reason than the king to apprehend violence.

   6. (archaic or obsolete, also figuratively) To seize or take (something); to take hold of.

      Synonym: catch

      • 1607, Edward Topsell, “Of the Dogge”, in The Historie of Fovre-footed Beastes. […], London: […] William Iaggard, →OCLC, page 156:

        Nicias a certaine hunter going abroad in the woods, chaunced to fall into a heape of burning coales, hauing no helpe about him but his dogs, there he periſhed, yet they ranne to the high waies and ceaſed not with barking and apprehending the garments of paſſengers, to ſhew vnto them ſome direfull euent: and at laſt one of the trauailers followed the dogs, and came to the place where they ſaw the man conſumed, and by that coniectured the whole ſtory.

      • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Of Christian Sobriety”, in The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC, section VI (Of Contentedness in All Estates and Accidents), page 134:

        When any thing happens to our diſpleaſure, let us endeavour to take of its trouble by turning it into ſpiritual or artificial advantage, and handle it on that ſide, in which it may be uſeful to the deſignes of reaſon. For there is nothing but hath a double handle, or at leaſt we have two hands to apprehend it.

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

      Synonyms: capture, detain

      Officers apprehended the suspect two streets away from the bank.

      • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of Power Ecclesiasticall”, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, third part (Of a Christian Common-wealth), page 276:

        […] Paul before his converſion entred into their Synagogues at Damaſcus, to apprehend Chriſtians, men and women, and to carry them bound to Jeruſalem, by Commiſſion from the High Prieſt.

      • 1769, William Blackstone, “Of Arrests”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book IV (Of Public Wrongs), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 287:

        [A] juſtice of the peace cannot iſſue a warrant to apprehend a felon upon bare ſuſpicion; no, not even till an indictment be actually found: and the contrary practice is by others held to be grounded rather upon connivance, than the expreſs rule of law; though now by long cuſtom eſtabliſhed.

      • 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XIII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 328:

        He soon returned to the Lowlands, and stayed there till he learned that a considerable body of troops had been sent to apprehend him.

   8. (obsolete)
      1. To feel (something) emotionally.

         • 1592, Thomas Nash[e], Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Deuill. […], London: […] [John Charlewood for] Richard Ihones, […], →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] Payne Collier, editor, Pierce Penniless’s Supplication to the Devil. […], London: […] [Frederic Shoberl, Jun.] for the Shakespeare Society, 1842, →OCLC, pages 66–67:

           [H]ow it worketh in the mindes and soules of them that haue no power to apprehend such felicitie, it is not for me to intimate, because it is preiudiciall to our monarchie.

         • 1605 (first performance)​, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Volpone, or The Foxe. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 465:

           Pol[itic Would-Be]. Stone dead! / Per[egrine]. Dead. Lord! how deeply, ſir, you apprehend it? / He was no kinſman to you?

         • 1670, Izaak Walton, “The Life of Mr. Rich[ard] Hooker, the Author of Those Learned Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity”, in The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert. […], volume III, London: […] Tho[mas] Newcomb for Rich[ard] Marriott, […], →OCLC, page 29:

           But the juſtifying of this Doctrine did not prove of ſo bad conſequence, as the kindneſs of Mrs. Churchmans curing him of his late Diſtemper and Cold; for that was ſo gratefully apprehended by Mr. Hooker, that he thought himſelf bound in conſcience to believe all that ſhe ſaid; […]

      2. To learn (something).

         • 1531, Thomas Elyot, “Of Pacience Deserued in Repulse, or Hynderaunce of Promocion”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 236:

           Undowghtedly in a prince or noble man may be nothinge more excellent, ye nothing more necessarye, than to aduance men after the estimation of their goodnes; and that for two speciall commodities that do come thereof. Fyrste, that thereby they prouoke many men to apprehende vertue.

         • a. 1681, Samuel Butler, “Satyr”, in R[obert] Thyer, editor, The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1759, →OCLC, lines 21–24, page 32:

           Though Children, without Study, Pains, or Thought, / Are Languages, and vulgar Notions taught, / Improve their nat’ral Talents without Care, / And apprehend, before they are aware; […]

      3. (also figuratively) To take possession of (something); to seize.

         • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Philippians 3:12, column 2:

           Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which alſo I am apprehended of Chriſt Jeſus.

           New International Version translation: Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

         • 1810, John Gillies, “the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Philemon”, in The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; with Devotional Reflections, […], volume II, new edition, London: […] Richard Edwards, […], →OCLC, section I, page 397:

           Thou [Jesus] followedst this poor slave [Onesimus] to Rome. Thou broughtest him under the ministry of thy servant Paul. Thou apprehendedst him by thy grace, and hadst greater joy in his conversion, than Paul had.

2. (intransitive)
   1. To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose.

      • 1614 November 10 (first performance; Gregorian calendar)​, Beniamin Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act I, scene iiii, page 8:

        Sir, if you haue a minde to mocke him, mocke him ſoftly, and looke to’ther way: for if hee apprehend you flout him, once, he will flie at you preſently. A terrible teſtie old fellow, and his name is Waſpe too.

      • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXXI. Mr. Hickman, to Miss Clarisa Harlowe. [Sent to Wilson’s by a Particular Hand.]”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume III, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 342:

        And ſince thou relieſt more on thy own precaution than upon my honour; be it unto thee as thou apprehendeſt, fair one!

   2. To understand.

      • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

        Coſin you apprehend paſſing ſhrewdly.

        Cousin, you understand extremely well.

      • 1712 November 21 (Gregorian calendar)​, Richard Steele, “MONDAY, November 10, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 532; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 80:

        I confess I cannot apprehend where lies the trifling in all this; […]

   3. To be apprehensive; to fear.

      • c. 1700, Jean de La Bruyère, “No. CLXXXVI”, in Nicholas Rowe, transl.; [John Timbs], editor, Laconics; or, The Best Words of the Best Authors. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Mathew] Carey, [Isaac] Lea & [Henry Charles] Carey […], published 1829, →OCLC, page 38:

        Death never happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives. It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

      • 1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Recollections of a Gifted Woman”, in Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 140:

        I sometimes apprehend that our institutions may perish before we shall have discovered the most precious of the possibilities which they involve.

Usage notes[edit]

The words apprehend and comprehend both describe acts of the mind. However, while apprehend denotes grasping something mentally so as to understand it clearly, at least in part, comprehend denotes understanding something entirely. We may, thus, apprehend many ideas without comprehending them. For example, the very idea of God supposes that he may be apprehended, though not comprehended, by rational beings. In The Study of Words (1851), Richard Chenevix Trench explained the difference thus: “[…] I read Hamlet, or King Lear: here I ‘apprehend’ much; I have wondrous glimpses of the poet’s intention and aim; but I do not for an instant suppose that I have ‘comprehended,’ taken in, that is, all that was in his mind in the writing”.^[3]

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Derived terms[edit]

• apprehended (adjective)
• apprehender
• apprehending (adjective, noun)
• apprehendingly
• misapprehend

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Further reading[edit]

• Defenition of the word apprehended

  • fully understood or grasped; «dangers not yet appreciated»; «these apprehended truths»; «a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known»
  • fully understood or grasped

Synonyms for the word apprehended

• • appreciated
  • comprehended
  • detained
  • held
  • in custody
  • seized

Similar words in the apprehended

• • apprehended
  • understood

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