See apprehend in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of the Signification of Spirit, Angel, and Inspiration in the Books of Holy Scripture”, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, 3rd part (Of a Christian Common-wealth), page 212:",
"text": "[…] Angel ſignifieth there, nothing but God himſelf, that cauſed Agar ſupernaturally to apprehend a voice from heaven; or rather, nothing elſe but a Voice ſupernaturall, teſtifying Gods ſpeciall preſence there.",
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"ref": "1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 70:",
"text": "[A]s to the barrel [of gunpowder] that had been wet, I did not apprehend any Danger from that; ſo I plac'd it in my new Cave, which in my Fancy I call'd my Kitchin, and the reſt I hid up and down in Holes among the Rocks, ſo that no wet might come to it, marking very carefully where I laid it.",
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"ref": "1832, Charles Simeon, “[2 Kings.] The Hypocrisy of Gehazi.”, in Horæ Homilecticæ: Or Discourses (Principally in the Form of Skeletons) Now First Digested into One Continued Series, and Forming a Commentary upon Every Book of the Old and New Testament; […], volume III (Judges to Second Book of Kings), London: Holdsworth and Ball, […], →OCLC, page 500:",
"text": "From thy composure on the occasion it was evident, that thou expectedst to reap the fruit of thine iniquity in peace; and that, when thou repliedst, \"All is well,\" thou apprehendedst no evil. But didst thou forget that God saw thee?",
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"ref": "1872, Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza 71, page 85:",
"text": "[E]ach man for his own sake / Accepts you as his guide, avails him of what worth / He apprehends in you to sublimate his earth / With fire: […]",
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"ref": "1569, [Reginald] Pole, chapter IIII, in [Thomas Copley?], transl., A Treatie of Iustification. […], Leuven: […] Ioannem Foulerum, →OCLC, 2nd book (Declaring the Second Danger), folio 41:",
"text": "If to apprehend Chriſte be vnderſtanded, to dvvell in Chriſte, and to haue him dvvell in vs, it is not true that Chriſte is apprehended in that ſorte, by onely faith vvithout charitie. […] He apprehendeth Chriſte truely, that cleaueth vnto Chriſt, and the glue vvhereby the ſovvle is fastned vnto Chriſte, ſaith S. Auguſtine, is charitie: […]",
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"ref": "1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Fatall Jealousies betwixt the King and Reimund Earl of Tripoli”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book II, page 100:",
"text": "This ſuſpicion of Earl Reimund, though at firſt but a buzze, ſoon got a ſting in the Kings head, and he violently apprehended it.",
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"ref": "1674, [Richard Allestree], “Of Boasting”, in The Government of the Tongue. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Theater, →OCLC, page 168:",
"text": "We ſee in all things how deſuetude do's contract and narrow our faculties, ſo that we may apprehend only thoſe things wherein we are converſant.",
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"ref": "1684, John Bunyan, “ A Holy Life the Beauty of Christianity: Or, An Exhortation to Christians to be Holy”, in Henry Stebbing, editor, The Entire Works of John Bunyan, […], volume III, London: James S[prent] Virtue, […], published 1862, →OCLC, page 305, column 2:",
"text": "There are three things in faith that directly tend to make a man depart from iniquity. (1.) It apprehendeth the truth of the being, and greatness of God, and so it aweth the spirit of a man. (2.) It apprehendeth the love of this God in Christ, and so it conquereth and overcometh the spirit of a man. (3.) It apprehendeth the sweetness and blessedness of the nature of the godhead, and thence persuadeth the soul to desire here communion with him, that it may be holy, and the enjoyment of him when this world is ended, that it may be happy in and by him for ever.",
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"ref": "1922, Carl Becker, “The Literary Qualities of the Declaration”, in The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 221:",
"text": "[Thomas] Jefferson apprehended the injustice of slavery; but one is inclined to ask how deeply he felt it.",
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"word": "理解"
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"word": "明白"
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"word": "appréhender"
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"word": "comprendre"
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"word": "begreifen"
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"word": "verstehen"
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"word": "αντιλαμβάνομαι"
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"word": "felfog"
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"alt": "りかいする",
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"roman": "rikai suru",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "理解する"
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"code": "ko",
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"roman": "ihaehada",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "이해하다"
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"roman": "kkaedatda",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "깨닫다"
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"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "entender"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ponimátʹ",
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"word": "поня́ть"
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"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "jānāti",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "जानाति"
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"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "pojmiti"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "aprehender"
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"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "entender"
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"word": "comprender"
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"word": "captar"
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"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "percibir"
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"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "greppa"
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"ref": "c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 82, column 1:",
"text": "Tim[on]. That's a laſciuious apprehenſion. / Ape[mantus]. So, thou apprehend'ſt it, / Take it for thy labour.",
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"ref": "1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Corasines Cruelly Sack the City of Jerusalem and Kill the Christians therein”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book IV, page 183:",
"text": "In ſtead therefore of giving them a houſe, he ſent them to a work-houſe; yet ſo, that they apprehended it a great courteſie done unto them: For he beſtowed on them all the lands which the Chriſtians held in Paleſtine; […]",
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"ref": "1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of Dæmonology, and Other Reliques of the Religion of the Gentiles”, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, 4th part (Of the Kingdome of Darknesse), page 363:",
"text": "[A]t this day, the ignorant People, where Images are worſhipped, doe really beleeve there is a Divine Power in the Images; and are told by their Paſtors, that ſome of them have ſpoken; and have bled; and that miracles have been done by them; which they apprehended as done by the Saint, which they think either is the Image it ſelf, or in it.",
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"ref": "1858, W[illiam] E[wart] Gladstone, “Sect. I. On the Plot of the Iliad.”, in Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age. […], volume III, Oxford, Oxfordshire: University Press, →OCLC, part IV (Aoidos), page 393:",
"text": "[…] Erinūs, who, in so many particular passages of the poems, makes miniature appearances in order to vindicate the eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them, likewise presides in full development over the general action of each of these extraordinary poems.",
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"ref": "c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:",
"text": "O let my Lady apprehend no feare, / In all Cupids pageant there is preſented no monſter.",
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"ref": "c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 76, column 2:",
"text": "Duke. Hath he borne himſelfe penitently in priſon? How ſeemes he to be touch'd? / Pro[vost]. A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully, but as a drunken ſleepe, careleſſe, wreakleſſe, and feareleſſe of what's paſt, preſent, or to come: inſenſible of mortality, and deſperately mortall.",
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"ref": "1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “The First Part”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, →OCLC, section 54, page 115:",
"text": "There is no ſalvation to thoſe that beleeve not in Chriſt, that is ſay ſome, ſince his Nativity, and as Divinity affirmeth, before alſo; which makes me much apprehend the ends of thoſe honeſt Worthies and Philoſophers which died before his incarnation.",
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"ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, “The Character of Mr. Square the Philosopher, and of Mr. Thwackum the Divine; with a Dispute Concerning ——”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book III, page 168:",
"text": "[T]he Parſon had concluded his Speech with a triumphant Queſtion, to which he had apprehended no Anſwer; viz. Can any Honour exiſt independent on Religion?",
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"ref": "1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter II, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 260:",
"text": "The king determined to try once more the experiment of a dissolution [of parliament]. A new parliament was summoned to meet at Oxford, in March, 1681. […] The university was devoted to the crown; and the gentry of the neighbourhood were generally Tories. Here, therefore, the opposition had more reason than the king to apprehend violence.",
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"ref": "1607, Conradus Gesnerus [i.e., Conrad Gessner], Edward Topsell, “Of the Dogge”, in The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes. […], London: […] William Iaggard, →OCLC, page 156:",
"text": "Nicias a certaine hunter going abroad in the woods, chaunced to fall into a heape of burning coales, hauing no helpe about him but his dogs, there he periſhed, yet they ranne to the high waies and ceaſed not with barking and apprehending the garments of paſſengers, to ſhew vnto them ſome direfull euent: and at laſt one of the trauailers followed the dogs, and came to the place where they ſaw the man conſumed, and by that coniectured the whole ſtory.",
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"text": "When any thing happens to our diſpleaſure, let us endeavour to take of its trouble by turning it into ſpiritual or artificial advantage, and handle it on that ſide, in which it may be uſeful to the deſignes of reaſon. For there is nothing but hath a double handle, or at leaſt we have two hands to apprehend it.",
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"text": "[…] Paul before his converſion entred into their Synagogues at Damaſcus, to apprehend Chriſtians, men and women, and to carry them bound to Jeruſalem, by Commiſſion from the High Prieſt.",
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{
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"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "aryštóŭvacʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "арышто́ўваць"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "aryštavácʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "арыштава́ць"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "zatrýmlivacʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "затры́мліваць"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "zatrymóŭvacʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "затрымо́ўваць"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "zatrymácʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "затрыма́ць"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "zadzjéržvacʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "задзе́ржваць"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "arestúvam",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"perfective"
],
"word": "аресту́вам"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zadǎ́ržam",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "задъ́ржам"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zadǎržá",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "задържа́"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dàibǔ, dǎibǔ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "逮捕"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zadržet"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zajmout"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zatknout"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "dopadnout"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "chytit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "pidättää"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "appréhender"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "arrêter"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "festnehmen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "syllamváno",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "συλλαμβάνω"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "letartóztat"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "arrestare"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "catturare"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "chepohada",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "체포하다"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "dast-gir kardan",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "دستگیر کردن"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"perfective"
],
"word": "aresztować"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zatrzymywać"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zatrzymać"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "apreender"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "deter"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "prender"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "capturar"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "arestóvyvatʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "аресто́вывать"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "arestovátʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "арестова́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zadérživatʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "заде́рживать"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zaderžátʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "задержа́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "aretirati"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "detener"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "aprehender"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "gripa"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "areštóvuvaty",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "арешто́вувати"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zaareštóvuvaty",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "заарешто́вувати"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "areštuváty",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "арештува́ти"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zaareštuváty",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "заарештува́ти"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zatrýmuvaty",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "затри́мувати"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 3 1 1 18 56 1 1 14 2 2 0",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zatrýmaty",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "затри́мати"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1592, Thomas Nash[e], Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Deuill. […], London: […] [John Charlewood for] Richard Ihones, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "[H]ow it worketh in the mindes and soules of them that haue no power to apprehend such felicitie, it is not for me to intimate, because it is preiudiciall to our monarchie.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1605 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Volpone, or The Foxe. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 465:",
"text": "Pol[itic Would-Be]. Stone dead! / Per[egrine]. Dead. Lord! how deeply, ſir, you apprehend it? / He was no kinſman to you?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1670, Izaak Walton, “The Life of Mr. Rich[ard] Hooker, the Author of Those Learned Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity”, in The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert. […], volume III, London: […] Tho[mas] Newcomb for Rich[ard] Marriott, […], →OCLC, page 29:",
"text": "But the juſtifying of this Doctrine did not prove of ſo bad conſequence, as the kindneſs of Mrs. Churchmans curing him of his late Diſtemper and Cold; for that was ſo gratefully apprehended by Mr. Hooker, that he thought himſelf bound in conſcience to believe all that ſhe ſaid; […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To feel (something) emotionally."
],
"id": "en-apprehend-en-verb-izlxrLsl",
"links": [
[
"feel",
"feel#Verb"
],
[
"emotionally",
"emotionally"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(obsolete)",
"To feel (something) emotionally."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1531, Thomas Elyot, “Of Pacience Deserued in Repulse, or Hynderaunce of Promocion”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 236:",
"text": "Undowghtedly in a prince or noble man may be nothinge more excellent, ye nothing more necessarye, than to aduance men after the estimation of their goodnes; and that for two speciall commodities that do come thereof. Fyrste, that thereby they prouoke many men to apprehende vertue.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "a. 1681 (date written), Samuel Butler, “Satyr”, in R[obert] Thyer, editor, The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1759, →OCLC, page 204, lines 21–24:",
"text": "Though Children, without Study, Pains, or Thought, / Are Languages, and vulgar Notions taught, / Improve their nat'ral Talents without Care, / And apprehend, before they are aware; […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To learn (something)."
],
"id": "en-apprehend-en-verb-kHcfhmGx",
"links": [
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"learn",
"learn#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(obsolete)",
"To learn (something)."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "New International Version translation: Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.",
"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Philippians 3:12, column 2:",
"text": "Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which alſo I am apprehended of Chriſt Jeſus.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1810, John Gillies, “the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Philemon”, in The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; with Devotional Reflections, […], new edition, volume II, London: […] Richard Edwards, […], →OCLC, section I, page 397:",
"text": "Thou [Jesus] followedst this poor slave [Onesimus] to Rome. Thou broughtest him under the ministry of thy servant Paul. Thou apprehendedst him by thy grace, and hadst greater joy in his conversion, than Paul had.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To take possession of (something); to seize."
],
"id": "en-apprehend-en-verb-I08SF4Ij",
"links": [
[
"possession",
"possession"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(obsolete)",
"(also figuratively) To take possession of (something); to seize."
],
"tags": [
"also",
"figuratively",
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1614 November 10 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Beniamin Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act I, scene iiii, page 8:",
"text": "Sir, if you haue a minde to mocke him, mocke him ſoftly, and looke to'ther way: for if hee apprehend you flout him, once, he will flie at you preſently. A terrible teſtie old fellow, and his name is Waſpe too.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXXI. Mr. Hickman, to Miss Clarisa Harlowe. [Sent to Wilson’s by a Particular Hand.]”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume III, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 342:",
"text": "And ſince thou relieſt more on thy own precaution than upon my honour; be it unto thee as thou apprehendeſt, fair one!",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose."
],
"id": "en-apprehend-en-verb-5N~v-6dO",
"links": [
[
"opinion",
"opinion"
],
[
"believe",
"believe"
],
[
"think",
"think#Verb"
],
[
"suppose",
"suppose"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Cousin, you understand extremely well.",
"ref": "1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:",
"text": "Coſin you apprehend paſſing ſhrewdly.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1712 November 21 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “MONDAY, November 10, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 532; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 80:",
"text": "I confess I cannot apprehend where lies the trifling in all this; […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To understand."
],
"id": "en-apprehend-en-verb-rKDLQh28",
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"To understand."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
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"_dis1": "6 0 27 4 1 1 1 1 1 2 5 48 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to understand",
"word": "aprehendre"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 0 27 4 1 1 1 1 1 2 5 48 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to understand",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "rozumět"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 0 27 4 1 1 1 1 1 2 5 48 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to understand",
"word": "věřit"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 0 27 4 1 1 1 1 1 2 5 48 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to understand",
"word": "appréhender"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 0 27 4 1 1 1 1 1 2 5 48 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "katalavaíno",
"sense": "to understand",
"word": "καταλαβαίνω"
}
]
},
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"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1700, Jean de La Bruyère, “No. CLXXXVI”, in translated by Nicholas Rowe, edited by [John Timbs], Laconics; or, The Best Words of the Best Authors. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Mathew] Carey, [Isaac] Lea & [Henry Charles] Carey […], published 1829, →OCLC, page 38:",
"text": "Death never happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives. It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Recollections of a Gifted Woman”, in Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 140:",
"text": "I sometimes apprehend that our institutions may perish before we shall have discovered the most precious of the possibilities which they involve.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be apprehensive; to fear."
],
"id": "en-apprehend-en-verb-CC9~F4ny",
"links": [
[
"apprehensive",
"apprehensive"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"To be apprehensive; to fear."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "0 4 6 2 11 0 2 5 1 2 2 7 58",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be apprehensive or fearful",
"word": "appréhender"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 4 6 2 11 0 2 5 1 2 2 7 58",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "geokjeonghada",
"sense": "to be apprehensive or fearful",
"word": "걱정하다"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 4 6 2 11 0 2 5 1 2 2 7 58",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "uryeohada",
"sense": "to be apprehensive or fearful",
"word": "우려하다"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/æpɹiˈhɛnd/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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"text": "[…] Angel ſignifieth there, nothing but God himſelf, that cauſed Agar ſupernaturally to apprehend a voice from heaven; or rather, nothing elſe but a Voice ſupernaturall, teſtifying Gods ſpeciall preſence there.",
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"text": "[A]s to the barrel [of gunpowder] that had been wet, I did not apprehend any Danger from that; ſo I plac'd it in my new Cave, which in my Fancy I call'd my Kitchin, and the reſt I hid up and down in Holes among the Rocks, ſo that no wet might come to it, marking very carefully where I laid it.",
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"text": "From thy composure on the occasion it was evident, that thou expectedst to reap the fruit of thine iniquity in peace; and that, when thou repliedst, \"All is well,\" thou apprehendedst no evil. But didst thou forget that God saw thee?",
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"ref": "1569, [Reginald] Pole, chapter IIII, in [Thomas Copley?], transl., A Treatie of Iustification. […], Leuven: […] Ioannem Foulerum, →OCLC, 2nd book (Declaring the Second Danger), folio 41:",
"text": "If to apprehend Chriſte be vnderſtanded, to dvvell in Chriſte, and to haue him dvvell in vs, it is not true that Chriſte is apprehended in that ſorte, by onely faith vvithout charitie. […] He apprehendeth Chriſte truely, that cleaueth vnto Chriſt, and the glue vvhereby the ſovvle is fastned vnto Chriſte, ſaith S. Auguſtine, is charitie: […]",
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"text": "We ſee in all things how deſuetude do's contract and narrow our faculties, ſo that we may apprehend only thoſe things wherein we are converſant.",
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"text": "There are three things in faith that directly tend to make a man depart from iniquity. (1.) It apprehendeth the truth of the being, and greatness of God, and so it aweth the spirit of a man. (2.) It apprehendeth the love of this God in Christ, and so it conquereth and overcometh the spirit of a man. (3.) It apprehendeth the sweetness and blessedness of the nature of the godhead, and thence persuadeth the soul to desire here communion with him, that it may be holy, and the enjoyment of him when this world is ended, that it may be happy in and by him for ever.",
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"ref": "1922, Carl Becker, “The Literary Qualities of the Declaration”, in The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 221:",
"text": "[Thomas] Jefferson apprehended the injustice of slavery; but one is inclined to ask how deeply he felt it.",
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"text": "Tim[on]. That's a laſciuious apprehenſion. / Ape[mantus]. So, thou apprehend'ſt it, / Take it for thy labour.",
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"text": "In ſtead therefore of giving them a houſe, he ſent them to a work-houſe; yet ſo, that they apprehended it a great courteſie done unto them: For he beſtowed on them all the lands which the Chriſtians held in Paleſtine; […]",
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"text": "[A]t this day, the ignorant People, where Images are worſhipped, doe really beleeve there is a Divine Power in the Images; and are told by their Paſtors, that ſome of them have ſpoken; and have bled; and that miracles have been done by them; which they apprehended as done by the Saint, which they think either is the Image it ſelf, or in it.",
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"text": "[…] Erinūs, who, in so many particular passages of the poems, makes miniature appearances in order to vindicate the eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them, likewise presides in full development over the general action of each of these extraordinary poems.",
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"ref": "c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:",
"text": "O let my Lady apprehend no feare, / In all Cupids pageant there is preſented no monſter.",
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"ref": "c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 76, column 2:",
"text": "Duke. Hath he borne himſelfe penitently in priſon? How ſeemes he to be touch'd? / Pro[vost]. A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully, but as a drunken ſleepe, careleſſe, wreakleſſe, and feareleſſe of what's paſt, preſent, or to come: inſenſible of mortality, and deſperately mortall.",
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"text": "There is no ſalvation to thoſe that beleeve not in Chriſt, that is ſay ſome, ſince his Nativity, and as Divinity affirmeth, before alſo; which makes me much apprehend the ends of thoſe honeſt Worthies and Philoſophers which died before his incarnation.",
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"ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, “The Character of Mr. Square the Philosopher, and of Mr. Thwackum the Divine; with a Dispute Concerning ——”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book III, page 168:",
"text": "[T]he Parſon had concluded his Speech with a triumphant Queſtion, to which he had apprehended no Anſwer; viz. Can any Honour exiſt independent on Religion?",
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"ref": "1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter II, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 260:",
"text": "The king determined to try once more the experiment of a dissolution [of parliament]. A new parliament was summoned to meet at Oxford, in March, 1681. […] The university was devoted to the crown; and the gentry of the neighbourhood were generally Tories. Here, therefore, the opposition had more reason than the king to apprehend violence.",
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"text": "Nicias a certaine hunter going abroad in the woods, chaunced to fall into a heape of burning coales, hauing no helpe about him but his dogs, there he periſhed, yet they ranne to the high waies and ceaſed not with barking and apprehending the garments of paſſengers, to ſhew vnto them ſome direfull euent: and at laſt one of the trauailers followed the dogs, and came to the place where they ſaw the man conſumed, and by that coniectured the whole ſtory.",
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"text": "When any thing happens to our diſpleaſure, let us endeavour to take of its trouble by turning it into ſpiritual or artificial advantage, and handle it on that ſide, in which it may be uſeful to the deſignes of reaſon. For there is nothing but hath a double handle, or at leaſt we have two hands to apprehend it.",
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"text": "[…] Paul before his converſion entred into their Synagogues at Damaſcus, to apprehend Chriſtians, men and women, and to carry them bound to Jeruſalem, by Commiſſion from the High Prieſt.",
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"text": "[A] juſtice of the peace cannot iſſue a warrant to apprehend a felon upon bare ſuſpicion; no, not even till an indictment be actually found: and the contrary practice is by others held to be grounded rather upon connivance, than the expreſs rule of law; though now by long cuſtom eſtabliſhed.",
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"ref": "1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XIII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 328:",
"text": "He soon returned to the Lowlands, and stayed there till he learned that a considerable body of troops had been sent to apprehend him.",
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"text": "[H]ow it worketh in the mindes and soules of them that haue no power to apprehend such felicitie, it is not for me to intimate, because it is preiudiciall to our monarchie.",
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"ref": "1605 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Volpone, or The Foxe. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 465:",
"text": "Pol[itic Would-Be]. Stone dead! / Per[egrine]. Dead. Lord! how deeply, ſir, you apprehend it? / He was no kinſman to you?",
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"ref": "1670, Izaak Walton, “The Life of Mr. Rich[ard] Hooker, the Author of Those Learned Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity”, in The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert. […], volume III, London: […] Tho[mas] Newcomb for Rich[ard] Marriott, […], →OCLC, page 29:",
"text": "But the juſtifying of this Doctrine did not prove of ſo bad conſequence, as the kindneſs of Mrs. Churchmans curing him of his late Diſtemper and Cold; for that was ſo gratefully apprehended by Mr. Hooker, that he thought himſelf bound in conſcience to believe all that ſhe ſaid; […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To feel (something) emotionally."
],
"links": [
[
"feel",
"feel#Verb"
],
[
"emotionally",
"emotionally"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(obsolete)",
"To feel (something) emotionally."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1531, Thomas Elyot, “Of Pacience Deserued in Repulse, or Hynderaunce of Promocion”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 236:",
"text": "Undowghtedly in a prince or noble man may be nothinge more excellent, ye nothing more necessarye, than to aduance men after the estimation of their goodnes; and that for two speciall commodities that do come thereof. Fyrste, that thereby they prouoke many men to apprehende vertue.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "a. 1681 (date written), Samuel Butler, “Satyr”, in R[obert] Thyer, editor, The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, […], volume I, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1759, →OCLC, page 204, lines 21–24:",
"text": "Though Children, without Study, Pains, or Thought, / Are Languages, and vulgar Notions taught, / Improve their nat'ral Talents without Care, / And apprehend, before they are aware; […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To learn (something)."
],
"links": [
[
"learn",
"learn#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(obsolete)",
"To learn (something)."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "New International Version translation: Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.",
"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Philippians 3:12, column 2:",
"text": "Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which alſo I am apprehended of Chriſt Jeſus.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1810, John Gillies, “the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Philemon”, in The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; with Devotional Reflections, […], new edition, volume II, London: […] Richard Edwards, […], →OCLC, section I, page 397:",
"text": "Thou [Jesus] followedst this poor slave [Onesimus] to Rome. Thou broughtest him under the ministry of thy servant Paul. Thou apprehendedst him by thy grace, and hadst greater joy in his conversion, than Paul had.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To take possession of (something); to seize."
],
"links": [
[
"possession",
"possession"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(obsolete)",
"(also figuratively) To take possession of (something); to seize."
],
"tags": [
"also",
"figuratively",
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1614 November 10 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Beniamin Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act I, scene iiii, page 8:",
"text": "Sir, if you haue a minde to mocke him, mocke him ſoftly, and looke to'ther way: for if hee apprehend you flout him, once, he will flie at you preſently. A terrible teſtie old fellow, and his name is Waſpe too.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXXI. Mr. Hickman, to Miss Clarisa Harlowe. [Sent to Wilson’s by a Particular Hand.]”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume III, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 342:",
"text": "And ſince thou relieſt more on thy own precaution than upon my honour; be it unto thee as thou apprehendeſt, fair one!",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose."
],
"links": [
[
"opinion",
"opinion"
],
[
"believe",
"believe"
],
[
"think",
"think#Verb"
],
[
"suppose",
"suppose"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Cousin, you understand extremely well.",
"ref": "1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:",
"text": "Coſin you apprehend paſſing ſhrewdly.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1712 November 21 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “MONDAY, November 10, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 532; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 80:",
"text": "I confess I cannot apprehend where lies the trifling in all this; […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To understand."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"To understand."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1700, Jean de La Bruyère, “No. CLXXXVI”, in translated by Nicholas Rowe, edited by [John Timbs], Laconics; or, The Best Words of the Best Authors. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Mathew] Carey, [Isaac] Lea & [Henry Charles] Carey […], published 1829, →OCLC, page 38:",
"text": "Death never happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives. It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Recollections of a Gifted Woman”, in Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 140:",
"text": "I sometimes apprehend that our institutions may perish before we shall have discovered the most precious of the possibilities which they involve.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be apprehensive; to fear."
],
"links": [
[
"apprehensive",
"apprehensive"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"To be apprehensive; to fear."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/æpɹiˈhɛnd/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "fahima",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "فَهِمَ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "shváštam",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "схва́щам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "shvána",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "схва́на"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dolávjam",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "дола́вям"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dolovjá",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "доловя́"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "aprehendre"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lǐjiě",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "理解"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "liǎojiě",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "了解"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "míngbai, míngbái",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "明白"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "pochopit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "chápat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "porozumět"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "begrijpen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "vatten"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "snappen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "tajuta"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "ymmärtää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "käsittää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "appréhender"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "comprendre"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "begreifen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "verstehen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "antilamvánomai",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "αντιλαμβάνομαι"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "felfog"
},
{
"alt": "りかいする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "rikai suru",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "理解する"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "ihaehada",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "이해하다"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "rihaehada",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"tags": [
"North-Korea"
],
"word": "리해하다"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "kkaedatda",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "깨닫다"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "entender"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ponimátʹ",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "понима́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ponjátʹ",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "поня́ть"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "jānāti",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "जानाति"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "pojmiti"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "aprehender"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "entender"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "comprender"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "captar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "percibir"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "greppa"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to take hold of (something) with the understanding — see also understand",
"word": "förstå"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "hváštam",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "хва́щам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "hvána",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "хва́на"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zadǎ́ržam",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "задъ́ржам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zadǎržá",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "задържа́"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dàibǔ, dǎibǔ",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"word": "逮捕"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "chytit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "uchopit"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"word": "ottaa kiinni"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"word": "appréhender"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"word": "fangen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "katalamváno",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"word": "καταλαμβάνω"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "butjapda",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"word": "붙잡다"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"word": "apreender"
},
{
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"word": "chapay"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xvatátʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "хвата́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sxvatítʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "схвати́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zadérživatʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "заде́рживать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zaderžátʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "задержа́ть"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"word": "prijeti"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"word": "aprehender"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"word": "coger"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"word": "prender"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"word": "capturar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to seize or take (something); to take hold of",
"word": "gripa"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "opasjávam se",
"sense": "to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear — see also dread, fear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "опася́вам се"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dānxīn",
"sense": "to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear — see also dread, fear",
"word": "擔心 /担心"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yōulǜ",
"sense": "to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear — see also dread, fear",
"word": "憂慮 /忧虑"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear — see also dread, fear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "obávat se"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear — see also dread, fear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "hrozit se"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear — see also dread, fear",
"word": "appréhender"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "fovámai",
"sense": "to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear — see also dread, fear",
"word": "φοβάμαι"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "yeomnyeohada",
"sense": "to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear — see also dread, fear",
"word": "염려하다"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "duryeowohada",
"sense": "to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear — see also dread, fear",
"word": "두려워하다"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear — see also dread, fear",
"word": "temer"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "opasátʹsja",
"sense": "to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear — see also dread, fear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "опаса́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bojátʹsja",
"sense": "to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear — see also dread, fear",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "боя́ться"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear — see also dread, fear",
"word": "bati se"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear — see also dread, fear",
"word": "temer"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "aryštóŭvacʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "арышто́ўваць"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "aryštavácʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "арыштава́ць"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "zatrýmlivacʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "затры́мліваць"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "zatrymóŭvacʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "затрымо́ўваць"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "zatrymácʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "затрыма́ць"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "zadzjéržvacʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "задзе́ржваць"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "arestúvam",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"perfective"
],
"word": "аресту́вам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zadǎ́ržam",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "задъ́ржам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zadǎržá",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "задържа́"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dàibǔ, dǎibǔ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "逮捕"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zadržet"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zajmout"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zatknout"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "dopadnout"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "chytit"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "pidättää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "appréhender"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "arrêter"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "festnehmen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "syllamváno",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "συλλαμβάνω"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "letartóztat"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "arrestare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "catturare"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "chepohada",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "체포하다"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "dast-gir kardan",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "دستگیر کردن"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"perfective"
],
"word": "aresztować"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zatrzymywać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zatrzymać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "apreender"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "deter"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "prender"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "capturar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "arestóvyvatʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "аресто́вывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "arestovátʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "арестова́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zadérživatʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "заде́рживать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zaderžátʹ",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "задержа́ть"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "aretirati"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "detener"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "aprehender"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"word": "gripa"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "areštóvuvaty",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "арешто́вувати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zaareštóvuvaty",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "заарешто́вувати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "areštuváty",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "арештува́ти"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zaareštuváty",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "заарештува́ти"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zatrýmuvaty",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "затри́мувати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zatrýmaty",
"sense": "to seize or take (a person) by legal process — see also arrest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "затри́мати"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to understand",
"word": "aprehendre"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to understand",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "rozumět"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to understand",
"word": "věřit"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to understand",
"word": "appréhender"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "katalavaíno",
"sense": "to understand",
"word": "καταλαβαίνω"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be apprehensive or fearful",
"word": "appréhender"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "geokjeonghada",
"sense": "to be apprehensive or fearful",
"word": "걱정하다"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "uryeohada",
"sense": "to be apprehensive or fearful",
"word": "우려하다"
}
],
"word": "apprehend"
}
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