单词	apprehend
释义	apprehendap‧pre‧hend /ˌæprɪˈhend/ verb [transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINapprehend Origin: 1300-1400 Latin apprehendere ‘to take hold of’, from ad- ‘to’ + prehendere ‘to seize’ Verb Table VERB TABLE apprehend Simple Form Present I, you, we, they apprehend he, she, it apprehends Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they apprehended Present perfect I, you, we, they have apprehended he, she, it has apprehended Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had apprehended Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will apprehend Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have apprehended Continuous Form Present I am apprehending he, she, it is apprehending you, we, they are apprehending Past I, he, she, it was apprehending you, we, they were apprehending Present perfect I, you, we, they have been apprehending he, she, it has been apprehending Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been apprehending Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be apprehending Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been apprehending Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Agents at the Interstate 8 station apprehended more than 3,100 undocumented workers. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS After several days however, with nobody apprehended, the papers indulged in a little poetic licence. But agents say that the longer the immigrants are on foot, the greater the chance of them being apprehended. I would have a certain amount to lose in terms of reputation were I to be apprehended. Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time. Talk of molecules does not undermine the reality of consciously apprehended beauty and meaning. The two men were later apprehended after they robbed another store. William Swain lived out the tensions that Jody only dimly apprehends. Thesaurus THESAURUS► catch to stop someone who is trying to escape, especially by running after them and then holding them: · He raced after her, but he couldn’t catch her.· The police caught the bank robbers after a car chase through the city. ► arrest if the police arrest someone, they take him or her to a police station because they think that person has done something illegal: · Wayne was arrested for dangerous driving.· The police arrested him and charged him with murder. ► apprehend formal if the police apprehend someone they think has done something illegal, they catch him or her: · The two men were later apprehended after they robbed another store.· The killers were never apprehended.· All of the kidnappers were apprehended and convicted. ► capture to catch an enemy or a criminal in order to keep them as a prisoner: · The French king was captured by the English at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.· The gunmen were finally captured after a shoot-out with the police. ► take somebody prisoner to catch someone, especially in a war, in order to keep them as a prisoner: · 350 soldiers were killed and another 300 taken prisoner.· Ellison was taken prisoner by the Germans during the retreat to Dunkirk. ► trap to make someone go to a place from which they cannot escape, especially by using your skill and intelligence: · Police trapped the man inside a bar on the city’s southside. ► corner to force someone into a place from which they cannot escape: · He was cornered outside the school by three gang members. 1formal if the police apprehend a criminal, they catch him or her SYN  arrest:  The police have failed to apprehend the culprits.► see thesaurus at catch2old-fashioned to understand something:  They were slow to apprehend the danger.
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