Sample sentences for APPREHEND

3 meanings

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1 —as in:
apprehend the situation

Definition

to understand or perceive (see or become aware of)

She doesn't yet apprehend the seriousness of the charge against her.

apprehend = understand

Other Uses (with this meaning)

It defines intelligence as "the ability to apprehend the interrelationships of presented facts in such a way as to guide action toward a desired goal."

apprehend = understand

How will the first truly intelligent machine apprehend the world?

apprehend = understand

This did not at all satisfy him, for he said quickly, "But I fear, Dr. Seward, that you hardly apprehend my wish."
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

apprehend = understand

Can you apprehend these outside forces?
John Green -- Turtles All the Way Down

apprehend = understand

I am glad to hear Bertram will be so well off. ... I apprehend he will not have less than seven hundred a year.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

apprehend = understand

Their stillness is the reason why these memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow—a vast, inapprehensible melancholy.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

inapprehensible = not capable of being understood

(Editor's note: The prefix "in-" in inapprehensible means not and reverses the meaning of apprehensible. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.)

Suddenly the element of life became distinguishable, as apprehensible as electric currents, air and water, desire for happiness, earth, sky.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago

apprehensible = able to be perceived

Even death, Alessandro thought, would yield to beauty-if not in fact then in explanation-for the likeness of every great question could be found in forms as simple as songs, and there, if not explicable, they were at least perfectly apprehensible.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War

apprehensible = understandable

Was this affirmation apprehended by Bloom?
James Joyce -- Ulysses

apprehended = understood

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2 —as in:
apprehend the criminal

Definition

to capture and arrest someone suspected of breaking the law

Police are determined to apprehend the murderer.

apprehend = catch and arrest

Other Uses (with this meaning)

They apprehended the suspect late last night.

apprehended = caught and arrested

Why had they apprehended Tate?
Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing

apprehended = caught or arrested

Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee;
Obey, and go with me; for thou must die.
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

apprehend = capture a wrongdoer

Considering we've got nothing better to work with, I intend to tell Chief Deacon that the Mother Paula's vandal has been apprehended.
Carl Hiassen -- Hoot

apprehended = caught

The culprit is far too cunning to be apprehended for this dastardly deed.
Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game

apprehended = caught

Mr Squeers, still half stunned, was hurried off with a stolen deed in his possession, and Mrs Sliderskew was apprehended likewise.
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby

apprehended = arrested

I do defy thy conjurations,
And apprehend thee for a felon here.
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

apprehend = catch and arrest

The culprit is far too cunning to be apprehended for this dastardly deed.
Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game

apprehended = captured or arrested

This morning they had not expected to locate and apprehend him.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

apprehend = arrest

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3 —as in:
apprehend misfortune

Definition

fear, or anticipate with worry

It can be worse to apprehend than to suffer.

apprehend = fear, or anticipate with worry

(editor's note: This is commonly seen in the forms apprehensive or apprehension, but it is also seen in this form in classic literature.)

Other Uses (with this meaning)

I hope it is better than we apprehend.

apprehend = fear, or anticipate with worry (commonly only seen in the forms apprehensive or apprehension, but seen in this form in classic literature)

(editor's note: This is commonly seen in the forms apprehensive or apprehension, but it is also seen in this form in classic literature.)

We shall greatly miss Edmund in our small circle, but I trust and hope he will find the poor invalid in a less alarming state than might be apprehended, and that he will be able to bring him to Mansfield shortly,
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

apprehended = feared

Mrs. R. knows a decline is apprehended;
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

apprehended = feared

In every other respect, in looking around her, or penetrating forward, she saw more to distrust and to apprehend.
Jane Austen -- Persuasion

apprehend = fear

(editor's note: This is commonly seen in the forms apprehensive or apprehension, but it is also seen in this form in classic literature.)

I trembled violently, apprehending some dreadful misfortune.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

apprehending = fearing

With his heart beating violently, and apprehending he knew not what disaster, Nicholas returned to where he had left Smike.
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby

apprehending = fearing

Is the danger you apprehended last night gone by now, sir?
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

apprehended = feared

Steerforth not yet appearing, which induced me to apprehend that he must be ill, I left the Commons early on the third day, and walked out to Highgate.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield

apprehend = fear

(editor's note: This is commonly seen in the forms apprehensive or apprehension, but it is also seen in this form in classic literature.)

The wills thrust westward ahead of them, and fears that had once apprehended drought or flood now lingered with anything that might stop the westward crawling.
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath

apprehended = worried about

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