apprehend
apprehend is a 9-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To take or seize; to take hold of. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To take or seize; to take hold of.
- transitive verb. Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
- transitive verb. To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
- transitive verb. To know or learn with certainty.
- transitive verb. To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
- intransitive verb. To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
- intransitive verb. To be apprehensive; to fear.
- verb. get the meaning of something
"Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
- verb. take into custody
"the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
- verb. anticipate with dread or anxiety
Synonyms
compass, comprehend, dig, grasp, grok, savvy, arrest, collar, cop, nab, nail
Common word forms
apprehends, apprehended, apprehender, apprehending, apprehendable
Words from these letters
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