apprehend
- IPA[ˌaprəˈhend]
美式
- arrest (someone) for a crime;understand or perceive
verb: apprehend, 3rd person present: apprehends, gerund or present participle: apprehending, past tense: apprehended, past participle: apprehended
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. arrest (someone) for a crime a warrant was issued but he has not been apprehended 同義詞
- 2. understand or perceive great art invites us to apprehend beauty 同義詞
- ▪ archaic anticipate (something) with uneasiness or fear he is a man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep