verb
- Get the meaning of something.
- usage: "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter"
- synonyms: grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend
- Take into custody.
- usage: "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
- Anticipate with dread or anxiety.
adjective
- Fully understood or grasped.
- usage: "dangers not yet appreciated"; "these apprehended truths"; "a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known"
- synonyms: appreciated, comprehended
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