Usually means: Understand or arrest; grasp mentally.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. apprehend: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. apprehend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apprehend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apprehend: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apprehend: Vocabulary.com
  6. Apprehend, apprehend: Wordnik
  7. apprehend: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. apprehend: Wiktionary
  9. apprehend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. apprehend: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. apprehend: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. apprehend: Dictionary.com
  13. apprehend: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. apprehend: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Apprehend: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. apprehend: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. apprehend: Rhymezone
  18. apprehend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. apprehend: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. apprehend: Free Dictionary
  21. apprehend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. apprehend: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. apprehend: Merriam-Webster.com

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  2. apprehend: Legal dictionary

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  1. apprehend: Encyclopedia

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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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