From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishapprehendap‧pre‧hend /ˌæprɪˈhend/ verb [transitive] 1 formalCATCH if the police apprehend a criminal, they catch him or her SYN arrest The police have failed to apprehend the culprits.► see thesaurus at catch2 old-fashioned to understand something They were slow to apprehend the danger.→ See Verb table
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apprehend• But agents say that the longer the immigrants are on foot, the greater the chance of them being apprehended.• I would have a certain amount to lose in terms of reputation were I to be apprehended.• William Swain lived out the tensions that Jody only dimly apprehends.• The two men were later apprehended after they robbed another store.• Talk of molecules does not undermine the reality of consciously apprehended beauty and meaning.• Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time.• Agents at the Interstate 8 station apprehended more than 3,100 undocumented workers.• After several days however, with nobody apprehended, the papers indulged in a little poetic licence.Origin apprehend (1300-1400) Latin apprehendere “to take hold of”, from ad- “to” + prehendere “to seize” 