- (v.t.) To anticipate; especially, to anticipate with anxiety, dread or fear; to fear.
- (v.i.) To be apprehensive; to fear.
- (v.t.) Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
- (v.t.) To know or learn with certainty.
- (v.i.) To think, believe or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
- (v.t.) To take or seize; to take hold of.
- (v.t.) To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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