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apprehended

adjective C1
  1. Taken; seized. · an apprehended criminal
  2. Conceived; understood. · an apprehended concept
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The man was apprehended, it appears, in the rooms of a certain Mr.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 86 · B2
Their parties abroad were less varied than before; and at home she had a mother and sister, whose constant repinings at the dulness of everything around them threw a real gloom over their domestic circle; and, though Kitty might in time regain her natural degree of sense, since the disturbers of her brain were removed, her other sister, from whose disposition greater evil might be apprehended, was likely to be hardened in all her folly and assurance, by a situation of such double danger as a watering-place and a camp.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 268 · B2

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