verb /æ.pɹiˈhɛnd/
a) To take or seize; to take hold of.
We have two hands to apprehend it. .
b) Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the kings head, and he violently apprehended it. .
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