Apprehend vs. Apprehensive — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Apprehend and Apprehensive
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Apprehend
To take into custody; arrest
Apprehended the murderer.
Apprehensive
Anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen
He felt apprehensive about going home
Apprehend
To grasp mentally; understand
"Science is the systematic method by which we apprehend what is true about the real world in which we live" (Richard Dawkins).
Apprehensive
Relating to perception or understanding.
Apprehend
To become conscious of, as through the emotions or senses; perceive
"She began to look with her own eyes.
To see and to apprehend the deeper undercurrents of life" (Kate Chopin).
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Apprehensive
Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy
Was apprehensive before the surgery.
Apprehend
(Archaic) To anticipate with worry or dread.
Apprehensive
(Archaic) Capable of understanding and quick to apprehend.
Apprehend
To understand something.
Apprehensive
Anticipating something with anxiety, fear, or doubt.
Apprehend
(transitive)
Apprehensive
(obsolete) Perceptive; quick to learn; capable of understanding using one's intellect.
Apprehend
To be or become aware of (something); to perceive.
Apprehensive
Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning.
It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to our talk.
Apprehend
To acknowledge the existence of (something); to recognize.
Apprehensive
Knowing; conscious; cognizant.
A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive of it.
Apprehend
To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
Apprehensive
Relating to the faculty of apprehension.
Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act.
Apprehend
To have a conception of (something); to consider, to regard.
Apprehensive
Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil.
Not at all apprehensive of evils as a distance.
Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives.
Apprehend
To anticipate (something, usually unpleasant); especially, to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear; to dread, to fear.
Apprehensive
Sensible; feeling; perceptive.
Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings,Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts.
Apprehend
To seize or take (something); to take hold of.
Apprehensive
Quick to understand;
A kind and apprehensive friend
Apprehend
(law enforcement) To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
Officers apprehended the suspect two streets away from the bank.
Apprehensive
Mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; worried;
Anxious parents
Anxious about her job
Not used to a city and anxious about small things
Felt apprehensive about the consequences
Apprehend
(obsolete)
Apprehensive
In fear or dread of possible evil or harm;
Apprehensive for one's life
Apprehensive of danger
Apprehend
(intransitive)
Apprehend
To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose.
Apprehend
To understand.
Apprehend
To be apprehensive; to fear.
Apprehend
To take or seize; to take hold of.
We have two hands to apprehend it.
Apprehend
Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
Apprehend
To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it.
The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them.
Apprehend
To know or learn with certainty.
G. You are too much distrustful of my truth.E. Then you must give me leave to apprehendThe means and manner how.
Apprehend
To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
The opposition had more reason than the king to apprehend violence.
Apprehend
To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
Apprehend
To be apprehensive; to fear.
It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
Apprehend
Get the meaning of something;
Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?
Apprehend
Take into custody;
The police nabbed the suspected criminals
Apprehend
Anticipate with dread or anxiety
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