Usually means: Grasps or understands something mentally.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. apprehends: Merriam-Webster
  2. apprehends: Collins English Dictionary
  3. apprehends: Vocabulary.com
  4. apprehends: Wordnik
  5. apprehends: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. apprehends: Wiktionary
  7. apprehends: Dictionary.com
  8. apprehends: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. apprehends: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. apprehends: Legal dictionary

(Note: See apprehend as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (apprehend)

verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To be or become aware of (something); to perceive.
verb:  To acknowledge the existence of (something); to recognize.
verb:  To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
verb:  To have a conception of (something); to consider, to regard.
verb:  To anticipate (something, usually unpleasant); especially, to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear; to dread, to fear.
verb:  (archaic or obsolete, also figuratively) To seize or take (something); to take hold of.
verb:  (law enforcement) To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
verb:  (obsolete)
verb:  To feel (something) emotionally.
verb:  To learn (something).
verb:  (also figuratively) To take possession of (something); to seize.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose.
verb:  To understand.
verb:  To be apprehensive; to fear.
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