Word Meanings - APPREHEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

of, seize; prae before + -hendere ; akin to Gr. 1. To take or seize; to take hold of. We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor. 2. Hence: To take or seize by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal. 3. To take hold of with

Additional info about word: APPREHEND

of, seize; prae before + -hendere ; akin to Gr. 1. To take or seize; to take hold of. We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor. 2. Hence: To take or seize by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal. 3. To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider. This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it. Fuller. The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them. Gladstone. 4. To know or learn with certainty. G. You are too much distrustful of my truth. E. Then you must give me leave to apprehend The means and manner how. Beau. & Fl. 5. To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear. The opposition had more reason than the king to apprehend violence. Macaulay. Syn. -- To catch; seize; arrest; detain; capture; conceive; understand; imagine; believe; fear; dread. -- To Apprehend, Comprehend. These words come into comparison as describing acts of the mind. Apprehend denotes the laying hold of a thing mentally, so as to understand it clearly, at least in part. Comprehend denotes the embracing or understanding it in all its compass and extent. We may apprehended many truths which we do not comprehend. The very idea of God supposes that he may be apprehended, though not comprehended, by rational beings. "We may apprehended much of Shakespeare's aim and intention in the character of Hamlet or King Lear; but few will claim that they have comprehended all that is embraced in these characters." Trench.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of APPREHEND)

• Anticipate
• Forestall
• prejudge
• expect
• foretaste
• apprehend
• prevent
• prearrange
• prepare
• meet
• obviate
• intercept
• forecast
• Arrest Seize
• take
• stop
• capture
• withhold
• restrain
• hold
• detain
• Catch
• Take
• seize
• grip
• clutch
• secure
• ensnare
• snatch
• hit
• arrest
• comprehend
• overtake
• Comprehend
• Comprise
• embody
• grasp
• understand
• conceive
• enclose
• include
• involve
• embrace
• Conceive
• Imagine
• believe
• suppose
• design
• think

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of APPREHEND)

• Release
• dismiss
• liberate
• free
• discharge
• expedite
• Liberate
• release
• emancipate
• Exclude
• except
• discard
• bar
• omit
• reject
• Loosen
• betray
• surrender
• expose
• imperil
• endanger
• open

Related words: (words related to APPREHEND)

• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• EXCEPT
  1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• PREJUDGE
  To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• INTERCEPTION
  The act of intercepting; as, interception of a letter; interception of the enemy.
• SNATCH
  1. To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss. When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. Pope. 2. To seize and transport away; to rap. "Snatch me to heaven." Thomson. Syn. -- To
• INTERCEPT
  To include between; as, that part of the intercepted between the points A and B. Syn. -- To cut off; stop; catch; seize; obstruct. (more info) intercept; inter between + capere to take, seize: cf. F. intercepter. 1. To take or seize by the way,
• INTERCEPTIVE
  Intercepting or tending to intercept.
• EXCEPTIONER
  One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
• GRASP
  1. To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of. Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff. Shak. 2. To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with;
• CATCHWORK
  A work or artificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• SCATCH
  A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey.
• INEXPECTABLE
  Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• UNCOMPREHEND
  To fail to comprehend. Daniel.
• MISTHINK
  To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.