• (America) IPA: /æ.pɹiˈhɛnd/

apprehend (apprehends, present participle apprehending; past and past participle apprehended)

1. (transitive, archaic) To take or seize; to take hold of.

   • We have two hands to apprehend it.

   1. (transitive, law enforcement) To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest.

      Officers apprehended the suspect two streets away from the bank.

2. (transitive) 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.

   • The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them.

3. (transitive) To anticipate; especially, to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 2, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

4. (intransitive) To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
5. (intransitive) To be apprehensive; to fear.

   • It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

• catch, seize, arrest, detain, capture, conceive, understand, imagine, believe, fear, dread

• French: appréhender
• German: fangen
• Portuguese: apreender
• Spanish: aprehender, coger, prender, capturar

• French: appréhender
• German: festnehmen
• Italian: arrestare, catturare
• Portuguese: apreender, deter, prender, capturar
• Russian: арестова́ть
• Spanish: detener, aprehender

• French: appréhender
• German: begreifen
• Portuguese: entender
• Spanish: aprehender, entender, comprender, captar, percibir

• French: appréhender
• Portuguese: temer
• Spanish: temer

• French: appréhender

• French: appréhender (understand)