What are some opposite words for apprehend?
Antonyms for apprehend
ˌæp rɪˈhɛndap·pre·hend
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apprehendverb
Synonyms:
seize, fear, dread, arrest, believe, capture, imagine, understand, detain, catch, conceiveapprehendverb
To take or seize; to take hold of.
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catch, dread, conceive, capture, understand, fear, seize, arrest, detain, imagine, believeapprehendverb
To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
to apprehend a criminal.
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dread, conceive, detain, capture, seize, understand, catch, believe, imagine, fear, arrestapprehendverb
To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
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catch, detain, imagine, believe, conceive, fear, capture, dread, arrest, understand, seizeapprehendverb
To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
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arrest, capture, conceive, understand, imagine, believe, fear, seize, catch, dread, detainapprehendverb
To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
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seize, conceive, believe, fear, understand, detain, capture, arrest, catch, dread, imagineapprehendverb
To be apprehensive; to fear.
Synonyms:
arrest, conceive, detain, imagine, catch, seize, believe, dread, understand, fear, capture
English Synonyms and Antonyms
apprehend
To anticipate may be either to take before in fact or to take before in thought; in the former sense it is allied with prevent; in the latter, with the synonyms above given. This is coming to be the prevalent and favorite use. We expect that which we have good reason to believe will happen; as, a boy expects to grow to manhood. We hope for that which we much desire and somewhat expect. We apprehend what we both expect and fear. Anticipate is commonly used now, like foretaste, of that which we expect both with confidence and pleasure. In this use it is a stronger word than hope, where often "the wish is father to the thought." I hope for a visit from my friend, tho I have no word from him; I expect it when he writes that he is coming; and as the time draws near I anticipate it with pleasure. Compare ABIDE; PREVENT.
Antonyms:
despair of, distrust, doubt, doubt, dread, fear, recall, recollect, rememberSynonyms:
anticipate, expect, forecast, foretaste, hope, look forward to
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
apprehend
Antonyms:
ignore, miss, lose, misconjecture, misconceive, misapprehend, misanticipateSynonyms:
comprehend, understand, take, expect, seize, conceive, arrest, fancy, dread, imagine, presume, anticipate, fear, conjecture
Princeton's WordNet
grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehendverb
get the meaning of something
"Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
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quail at, compass, delve, embrace, toil, grind, dig, nail, drudge, moil, encompass, dig up, arrest, jab, poke, cut into, nab, collar, grasp, prod, travail, labour, get the picture, hollow, stab, cop, hold on, comprehend, turn over, excavate, pick up, perceive, cover, savvy, labor, grok, circumnavigate, dig outcollar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, copverb
take into custody
"the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
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quail at, cop, uplift, peck, hook, savvy, hear, complete, get, dig, percolate, hold back, nail, glom, nail down, pass with flying colors, perk up, smash, arrest, gather up, get word, nab, snitch, boom, call for, see, find out, turn back, grasp, perk, halt, gain vigor, knock off, ace, compass, receive, sweep through, stop, sail through, get the picture, pinpoint, collar, turn around, get a line, comprehend, lift up, peg, intoxicate, pick up, breeze through, contain, elate, catch, thieve, blast, grok, learn, get wind, hold, collect, discover, checkapprehend, quail atverb
anticipate with dread or anxiety
Synonyms:
dig, nail, savvy, collar, arrest, pick up, nab, grok, quail at, compass, get the picture, comprehend, grasp, cop
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
apprehendverb
Synonyms:
arrest, seize, understand, recognize, consider believe, anticipate, dread, fear
How to use apprehend in a sentence?
Nobody should be subjected to hateful violence on the streets of New York, we must do everything in our power to help authorities identify and apprehend those responsible, and we must also work together in order to prevent these incidents from occurring in the first place.
From where I sit, I think there was a monumental failure of analysis, internationally, i think people failed to apprehend the complex nature of Ethiopia's transition, especially they failed to appreciate also the complex side of Abiy, that he was not all this sunny, smiling guy. That beneath was a much more calculating, and even Machiavellian figure, who eventually will I think push the country towards a much more dangerous path.
I thank the officers who bravely responded to apprehend the suspect, and I assure you that the state of Texas is committed to bringing this killer to justice.
This was a very proactive investigation. We had a joint task force in place along with SFPD to apprehend the suspect.
The territory has been completely surrounded, the operation to apprehend and neutralize the criminals is under way.
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