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# apprehend

«apprehend» in Mova's school dictionary: **to catch and arrest them** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (apprehend, apprehends, apprehended, apprehending)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) To apprehend someone is to catch and arrest them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apprehend/#m1)

2) (formal) To apprehend something is to understand it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apprehend/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In news and detective stories police "apprehend a suspect". In formal writing it can mean understand. Phrases: apprehend a suspect, apprehended by police.

### examples

- The police apprehended the thief at the station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apprehend/#x1)
- The suspect was apprehended after a chase. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apprehend/#x2)
- It took time to apprehend the full danger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apprehend/#x3)
- Officers apprehended two people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apprehend/#x4)
- Security guards cannot always apprehend shoplifters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apprehend/#x5)
- She quickly apprehended what was happening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apprehend/#x6)

### note

Formal; everyday words: catch, arrest, understand. Noun: apprehension. Regular verb: apprehended.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «apprehend» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apprehend/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.