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  • English Word Apprehend Definition To take or seize; to take hold of.
  • English Word Apprehend Definition Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
  • English Word Apprehend Definition To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
  • English Word Apprehend Definition To know or learn with certainty.
  • English Word Apprehend Definition To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
  • English Word Apprehend Definition To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
  • English Word Apprehend Definition To be apprehensive; to fear.
  • English Word Apprehended Definition of Apprehend
  • English Word Apprehender Definition One who apprehends.
  • English Word Apprehending Definition of Apprehend
  • English Word Apprehensibiity Definition The quality of being apprehensible.
  • English Word Apprehensible Definition Capable of being apprehended or conceived.
  • English Word Apprehension Definition The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
  • English Word Apprehension Definition The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
  • English Word Apprehension Definition The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
  • English Word Apprehension Definition Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
  • English Word Apprehension Definition The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
  • English Word Apprehension Definition Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.
  • English Word Apprehensive Definition Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning.
  • English Word Apprehensive Definition Knowing; conscious; cognizant.
  • English Word Apprehensive Definition Relating to the faculty of apprehension.
  • English Word Apprehensive Definition Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil.
  • English Word Apprehensive Definition Sensible; feeling; perceptive.
  • English Word Apprehensively Definition In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.
  • English Word Apprehensiveness Definition The quality or state of being apprehensive.
  • English Word Apprentice Definition One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.
  • English Word Apprentice Definition One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.
  • English Word Apprentice Definition A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant.
  • English Word Apprentice Definition To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.
  • English Word Apprenticeage Definition Apprenticeship.