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Word: apprehend
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Verb:
- Hence: transitive To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
- intransitive To be apprehensive; to fear.
- intransitive To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
- Archaic To take or seize; to take hold of.
- transitive To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
- transitive To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
Source: Wiktionary
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