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Princeton's WordNet

  1. appreciated, apprehended, comprehendedadjective

    fully understood or grasped

    "dangers not yet appreciated"; "these apprehended truths"; "a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known"

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  1. apprehended

    Apprehended generally refers to the act of being captured, understood or perceived. The context of the word determines its specific meaning. In law enforcement, it refers to the arrest or capture of a suspect. In cognitive perception, it means to understand or grasp a concept or idea. Thus, to apprehend can mean to arrest or detain someone, or to understand or perceive something.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Apprehended

    of Apprehend

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of APPREHENDED in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of APPREHENDED in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of APPREHENDED in a Sentence

  1. Alfred North Whitehead:

    Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

  2. Patrick Conry:

    It’s very early on in the investigation, we don’t know if the males that were apprehended here are connected with the initial robbery complaint.

  3. President Barack Obama on Friday:

    I don't want us to be in a situation in which, for a certain period of time, those authorities go away, and suddenly we're dark, and heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate.

  4. Donald Trump:

    Mexico has been absolutely terrific in the past four days. they're apprehending everybody. Yesterday they apprehended 1,400 people. The day before it was a thousand. And if they apprehend people at their southern border, that's a big home run.

  5. The Mexican President:

    It was for us, the government, without a doubt a difficult and tense moment when he [El Chapo] was able to escape from prison. ... But the important thing is that we were able to re-apprehend him. The most wanted criminal in Mexico, one of the most wanted in the world, was re-apprehended thanks to an intelligence effort and consistent work of the public security forces in our country.

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