Crossword-Solution: APPREHEND
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Apprehend | v. t. | To take or seize; to take hold of. |
| Apprehend | v. t. | Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal. |
| Apprehend | 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. |
| Apprehend | v. t. | To know or learn with certainty. |
| Apprehend | v. t. | To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear. |
| Apprehend | v. i. | To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose. |
| Apprehend | v. i. | To be apprehensive; to fear. |
We have 55 clues for the answer “APPREHEND”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| cognise | 7 answers |
| Take into custody | 8 answers |
| Run-in | 20 answers |
| Run in | 20 answers |
| Perceive | 21 answers |
| Snatch | 21 answers |
| Recognize | 26 answers |
| Nab | 30 answers |
| Foresee. | 30 answers |
| Recognise | 31 answers |
| Collar | 32 answers |
| detain | 34 answers |
| Seize | 35 answers |
| Learn | 35 answers |
| Expect | 36 answers |
| Fathom | 38 answers |
| Visualize | 39 answers |
| Visualise | 40 answers |
| Conceive | 41 answers |
| Feel | 43 answers |
| Discern | 44 answers |
| know | 45 answers |
| usurp | 45 answers |
| Believe | 48 answers |
| Anticipate | 48 answers |
| Capture | 49 answers |
| MAKE less excessive | 50 answers |
| Observe | 51 answers |
| COMPASS ___ | 52 answers |
| Appreciate | 56 answers |
| Impound | 57 answers |
| Accept | 60 answers |
| Realise | 60 answers |
| Realize | 61 answers |
| make free with | 62 answers |
| Pick up | 63 answers |
| retard | 64 answers |
| make out | 64 answers |
| Absorb | 64 answers |
| presume | 65 answers |
| Under-stand | 66 answers |
| FEAR_ | 67 answers |
| Assume | 70 answers |
| Hold | 71 answers |
| __ bag | 71 answers |
| Grasp | 73 answers |
| Catch ___ | 73 answers |
| Have ___ | 75 answers |
| Arrest | 75 answers |
| Follow | 75 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "APPREHEND"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
16 +2
New Suggestion for "APPREHEND"
Related word tools
Sentences with APPREHEND (5)
But say, What meant that caution joind, _If ye be found obedient?_ can wee want obedience then To him, or possibly his love desert Who formd us from the dust, and plac’d us here Full to the utmost measure of what bliss Human desires can seek or apprehend? To whom the Angel.
Under cover of his character of singing-master, he made frequent visits at the farmhouse; not that he had anything to apprehend from the meddlesome interference of parents, which is so often a stumbling-block in the path of lovers.
From all this testimony, I am led to apprehend—reluctantly, and with deep grief—that Clifford’s misfortunes have so affected his intellect, never very strong, that he cannot safely remain at large.
But his ruddy embrowned cheek-bones could be plainly seen, and the large and bright blue eyes, that flashed from under the dark shade of the raised visor; and the whole gesture and look of the champion expressed careless gaiety and fearless confidence—a mind which was unapt to apprehend danger, and prompt to defy it when most imminent—yet with whom danger was a familiar thought, as with one whose trade was war and adventure.
The watchful guard, with his right hand at the stock of his raised blunderbuss, his left at the barrel, and his eye on the horseman, answered curtly, “Sir.” “There is nothing to apprehend.
Quotes with APPREHEND (3)
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknow…
A truth is not necessary, because we negatively are not able to conceive the actual existence of the opposite thereof; but a truth is necessary when we positively are able to apprehend that the negation thereof includes an inevitable contradiction. It is not that that we can see how the opposite comes to be true, but it is that the opposite can not possibly be true.
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. And we are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality which surrounds us. The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1984–2016).