Apprehend
verb
To capture or arrest someone, especially a criminal.
The police apprehended the thief hiding in the basement.
Often appears as...
- apprehend a suspect
- apprehend a criminal
verb
To understand or grasp something.
Even the brightest students struggled to apprehend the complex theory.
Often appears as...
- apprehend a concept
- apprehend the meaning
verb
To anticipate something with fear or dread.
The sailor apprehended the approaching storm with fear.
Often appears as...
- apprehend a disaster
- apprehend a risk
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Disapproving
verb
To capture or arrest someone, especially a criminal.
The police apprehended the thief hiding in the basement.
Often appears as...
- apprehend a suspect
- apprehend a criminal
verb
To understand or grasp something.
Even the brightest students struggled to apprehend the complex theory.
Often appears as...
- apprehend a concept
- apprehend the meaning
verb
To anticipate something with fear or dread.
The sailor apprehended the approaching storm with fear.
Often appears as...
- apprehend a disaster
- apprehend a risk
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Law Enforcement
Commonly used in a police or legal context when someone is arrested.
Officers apprehended the suspect near the scene.
Pro Tip 2/3Active Pursuit
Suggests active pursuit or effort by authorities to catch a person.
After a chase, the fugitive was finally apprehended.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Automatic
Does not imply instant capture, might involve planning or searching.
The detective apprehended the culprits after weeks of investigation.
Pro Tip 1/3Law Enforcement
Commonly used in a police or legal context when someone is arrested.
Officers apprehended the suspect near the scene.
Pro Tip 2/3Active Pursuit
Suggests active pursuit or effort by authorities to catch a person.
After a chase, the fugitive was finally apprehended.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Automatic
Does not imply instant capture, might involve planning or searching.
The detective apprehended the culprits after weeks of investigation.
Pro Tip 1/3Law Enforcement
Commonly used in a police or legal context when someone is arrested.
Officers apprehended the suspect near the scene.
Pro Tip 2/3Active Pursuit
Suggests active pursuit or effort by authorities to catch a person.
After a chase, the fugitive was finally apprehended.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Automatic
Does not imply instant capture, might involve planning or searching.
The detective apprehended the culprits after weeks of investigation.
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Ideasthesia: How do...
our sensory experience of the world would be an undifferentiated mass rather than the discrete objects we actually apprehend. For science, the task is to find where this network lies, how it is formed, and how it interacts with external stimuli. For philosophy, the challenge is to rethink
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The beauty of data...
immediately apprehend the relationship between efficacy and popularity but you can also if you braid the evidence sort of do a worth it line and so supplements above this line are worth investigating but only for the conditions listed below and then supplements below the line or
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The most successful...
forcing their commanders to hire more than 30 private junks. Madame Zheng was so feared that Chinese commanders charged with apprehending her spent most of their time ashore, sometimes sabotaging their own vessels to avoid battle at sea. With little to stop them,
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Dare to refuse the...
It's about our own most identities, the ones that we put our hands up to, the ones that we cheer for, the ones that we fight for, the ones that we love or hate. And it's about how we apprehend ourselves as well as others.
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Baby Parrots Rescued...
the bus a young couple is apprehended and taken into custody this kind of scenario is quite common for someone to get a bird into their bag and try to transport it in a bus because that's easy money for them
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Snow Leopards: Ghosts in...
into their lair yeah when i catch up with kuban he tells me something that brings me back down to earth this really is long but it goes to huntington's session in 2010 we apprehended one poacher here
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Can you solve the seven...
Your interstellar police squad has tracked a group of dangerous rebels to a cluster of of seven small planets. Now you must apprehend them quickly before their reinforcements arrive.
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Illegal Marijuana Farms...
They're gonna go down raw, so extremely important. We stay behind these trees Waiting for the suspects to show up in the vehicle once they show up. Hopefully we can apprehend them
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The Murder of Kim...
and that is death, by hanging. The chemist of the gang is also apprehended.
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Busting a Stashhouse PIPE...
is immediately apprehended what's the search one first for a narcotic you
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Ideasthesia: How do...
our sensory experience of the world would be an undifferentiated mass rather than the discrete objects we actually apprehend. For science, the task is to find where this network lies, how it is formed, and how it interacts with external stimuli. For philosophy, the challenge is to rethink
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The beauty of data...
immediately apprehend the relationship between efficacy and popularity but you can also if you braid the evidence sort of do a worth it line and so supplements above this line are worth investigating but only for the conditions listed below and then supplements below the line or
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The most successful...
forcing their commanders to hire more than 30 private junks. Madame Zheng was so feared that Chinese commanders charged with apprehending her spent most of their time ashore, sometimes sabotaging their own vessels to avoid battle at sea. With little to stop them,
Video examples
Dare to refuse the...
It's about our own most identities, the ones that we put our hands up to, the ones that we cheer for, the ones that we fight for, the ones that we love or hate. And it's about how we apprehend ourselves as well as others.
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Baby Parrots Rescued...
the bus a young couple is apprehended and taken into custody this kind of scenario is quite common for someone to get a bird into their bag and try to transport it in a bus because that's easy money for them
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Snow Leopards: Ghosts in...
into their lair yeah when i catch up with kuban he tells me something that brings me back down to earth this really is long but it goes to huntington's session in 2010 we apprehended one poacher here
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Can you solve the seven...
Your interstellar police squad has tracked a group of dangerous rebels to a cluster of of seven small planets. Now you must apprehend them quickly before their reinforcements arrive.
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Illegal Marijuana Farms...
They're gonna go down raw, so extremely important. We stay behind these trees Waiting for the suspects to show up in the vehicle once they show up. Hopefully we can apprehend them
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The Murder of Kim...
and that is death, by hanging. The chemist of the gang is also apprehended.
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Busting a Stashhouse PIPE...
is immediately apprehended what's the search one first for a narcotic you
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Mike Nichols
German Director
The greatest thrill is that moment when a thousand people are sitting in the dark, looking at the same scene, and they are all apprehending something that has not been spoken. That's the thrill of it, the miracle - that's what holds us to movies forever. It's what we wish we could do in real life.
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Aristotle
Greek Philosopher
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
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Elias Hicks
American Clergyman
In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.
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Isaac Barrow
English Mathematician
That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
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Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Argentinian Activist
Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.
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Maimonides
Spanish Philosopher
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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Giordano Bruno
Italian Philosopher
The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.
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Alfred North Whitehead
English Mathematician
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.
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James Turrell
American Artist
I apprehend light - I make events that shape or contain light.
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Mike Nichols
German Director
The greatest thrill is that moment when a thousand people are sitting in the dark, looking at the same scene, and they are all apprehending something that has not been spoken. That's the thrill of it, the miracle - that's what holds us to movies forever. It's what we wish we could do in real life.
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Aristotle
Greek Philosopher
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
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Elias Hicks
American Clergyman
In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.
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Isaac Barrow
English Mathematician
That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
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Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Argentinian Activist
Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.
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Maimonides
Spanish Philosopher
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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Giordano Bruno
Italian Philosopher
The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.
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Alfred North Whitehead
English Mathematician
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.
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James Turrell
American Artist
I apprehend light - I make events that shape or contain light.
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