Meaning & use
apprehend
To arrest someone, especially for a crime, or to catch and take into custody.
See it in a sentence
Police apprehended the suspect just two blocks from the scene of the robbery.
It took investigators several months to apprehend the entire smuggling ring.
A note on using this word
Apprehend can also mean to understand or grasp an idea mentally, a more formal and less common sense.
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Another way to use it
2. verb
To understand or grasp the meaning or significance of something.
It took the students a while to fully apprehend the complexity of the argument.
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