Definitions for apprehend

apprehend ap·pre·hend

Spelling: [ap-ri-hend]
IPA: /ˌæp rɪˈhɛnd/

Apprehend is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 288 anagrams from letters in apprehend (adeehnppr).

Definitions for apprehend

verb (used with object)

  1. to take into custody; arrest by legal warrant or authority:
  2. to grasp the meaning of; understand, especially intuitively; perceive.
  3. to expect with anxiety, suspicion, or fear; anticipate:

verb (used without object)

  1. to understand.
  2. to be apprehensive, suspicious, or fearful; fear.

Origin of apprehend

1350-1400; Middle English apprehenden Latin apprehendere to grasp, equivalent to ap- ap-1 + prehendere to seize (pre- pre- + -hendere

Examples for apprehend

Boya Dee live-tweeted the moments after the attack when police arrived to apprehend the suspects—injuring both.

Manifest no distrust, or you may invite the danger you appear to apprehend.

And well might they apprehend so:—For who do you think he is?

In the script I worked on, a man pursues a woman in order to apprehend her husband.

"Much the same, I apprehend, as to the rich," answered M'Leod.

Somebody yanks Chan and elbows him and he is momentarily distracted trying to apprehend his assailant.

Finally, even if the court did decide to pursue charges, it would be unable to apprehend wanted suspects.

As the OSS pieced together the Operation Bernhard network, it made plans to apprehend those participants not already in custody.

If it be for what I apprehend it to be, life will not be supportable upon the terms.

Nor let any one apprehend that this subject can ever become trite and vulgar.

Word Value for apprehend
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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