apprehend
/ˌæpɹɪˈhɛnd/ verb C2- To be or become aware of (something); to perceive.
- To acknowledge the existence of (something); to recognize.
- To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
- To have a conception of (something); to consider, to regard.
- To anticipate (something, usually unpleasant); especially, to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear; to dread, to fear.
- To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest. · Officers apprehended the suspect two streets away from the bank.
- To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose.
- To understand.
He/she/it apprehends · Past apprehended · Past participle apprehended · -ing form apprehending
Verb forms
- Base form
- apprehend
- He/she/it
- apprehends
- Past
- apprehended
- Past participle
- apprehended
- -ing form
- apprehending
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Besides, had not the deputy, who had been so kind to him, told him that provided he did not pronounce the dreaded name of Noirtier, he had nothing to apprehend?
“It may, of course, be a mere coincidence, or it may point to some nervousness which would indicate that he had reason to apprehend danger.
The man was apprehended, it appears, in the rooms of a certain Mr.
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.
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