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Apprehend

To take into custody; arrest
Apprehended the murderer.
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Arrest

An arrest is the act of apprehending and taking a person into custody (legal protection or control), usually because the person has been suspected of or observed committing a crime. After being taken into custody, the person can be questioned further and/or charged.
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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).
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Arrest

To stop; check
A brake that automatically arrests motion.
Arrested the growth of the tumor.
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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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Arrest

To seize and hold under the authority of law.
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Apprehend

(Archaic) To anticipate with worry or dread.
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Arrest

To capture and hold briefly (the attention, for example); engage.
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Apprehend

To understand something.
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Arrest

To undergo cardiac arrest
The patient arrested en route to the hospital.
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Apprehend

(transitive)
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Arrest

The act of detaining in legal custody
The arrest of a criminal suspect.
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Apprehend

To be or become aware of (something); to perceive.
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Arrest

The state of being so detained
A suspect under arrest.
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Apprehend

To acknowledge the existence of (something); to recognize.
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Arrest

A device for stopping motion, especially of a moving part.
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Apprehend

To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
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Arrest

The act of stopping or the condition of being stopped.
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Apprehend

To have a conception of (something); to consider, to regard.
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Arrest

A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
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Apprehend

To anticipate (something, usually unpleasant); especially, to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear; to dread, to fear.
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Arrest

The condition of being stopped, standstill.
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Apprehend

To seize or take (something); to take hold of.
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Arrest

(legal) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
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Apprehend

(law enforcement) To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
Officers apprehended the suspect two streets away from the bank.
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Arrest

A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
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Apprehend

(obsolete)
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Arrest

A device to physically arrest motion.
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Apprehend

(intransitive)
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Arrest

(nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
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Apprehend

To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose.
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Arrest

(obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
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Apprehend

To understand.
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Arrest

(farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
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Apprehend

To be apprehensive; to fear.
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Arrest

To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part).
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Apprehend

To take or seize; to take hold of.
We have two hands to apprehend it.
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Arrest

To stay, remain.
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Apprehend

Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
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Arrest

(transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
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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.
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Arrest

(transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.
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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.
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Arrest

(transitive) To catch the attention of.
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Apprehend

To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
The opposition had more reason than the king to apprehend violence.
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Arrest

To undergo cardiac arrest.
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Apprehend

To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
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Arrest

To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.
Nor could her virtues the relentless handOf Death arrest.
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Apprehend

To be apprehensive; to fear.
It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
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Arrest

To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime.
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Apprehend

Get the meaning of something;
Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?
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Arrest

To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention.
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Apprehend

Take into custody;
The police nabbed the suspected criminals
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Arrest

To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate.
We may arrest our thoughts upon the divine mercies.
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Apprehend

Anticipate with dread or anxiety
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Arrest

To tarry; to rest.
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Arrest

The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development.
As the arrest of the air showeth.
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Arrest

The taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant.
William . . . ordered him to be put under arrest.
[Our brother Norway] sends out arrestsOn Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys.
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Arrest

Any seizure by power, physical or moral.
The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., . . . were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.
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Arrest

A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; - also named rat-tails.
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Arrest

The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal);
The policeman on the beat got credit for the collar
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Arrest

The state of inactivity following an interruption;
The negotiations were in arrest
Held them in check
During the halt he got some lunch
The momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow
He spent the entire stop in his seat
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Arrest

Take into custody;
The police nabbed the suspected criminals
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Arrest

Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of;
Arrest the downward trend
Check the growth of communism in Sout East Asia
Contain the rebel movement
Turn back the tide of communism
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Arrest

Attract and fix;
His look caught her
She caught his eye
Catch the attention of the waiter
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Arrest

Cause to stop;
Halt the engines
Arrest the progress
Halt the presses
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