apprehend

[US]/æprɪ'hend/
[UK]/ˌæprɪ'hɛnd/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

apprehend: vt. arrest, detain; understand

Phrases & Collocations

apprehend the suspect

apprehend a criminal

apprehend the thief

Example Sentences

apprehend the flame of a candle

apprehend a hard winter

I apprehend no worsening of the situation.

Do you apprehend any difficulty?

The police apprehended the criminal.

a candidate who apprehends the significance of geopolitical issues.

"At last, I apprehended his meaning."

At last I apprehend ed his meaning.

She apprehended the complicated law very quickly.

Are you sure you entirely apprehend the importance of completing these forms as accurately as possible?

It is perhaps not too much to say that any calamity the moment it is apprehended by the reason alone loses nearly all its power to disturb and unfix us.

The triggerman was apprehended almost immediately. He was identified as Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish terrorist. Agca had publicly vowed to kill the pope during the potiff's 1979 visit to Turkey.

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