Index of English words, starting with "ap"

(1) - Apprehend (v. i.) To be apprehensive; to fear.
(2) - Apprehend (v. i.) To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
(3) - Apprehend (v. t.) To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
(4) - Apprehend (v. t.) To know or learn with certainty.
(5) - Apprehend (v. t.) To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
(6) - Apprehend (v. t.) Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
(7) - Apprehend (v. t.) To take or seize; to take hold of.

(1) - Apprehensible (a.) Capable of being apprehended or conceived.

(1) - Apprehension (n.) Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.
(2) - Apprehension (n.) The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
(3) - Apprehension (n.) Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
(4) - Apprehension (n.) The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
(5) - Apprehension (n.) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
(6) - Apprehension (n.) The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.

(1) - Apprehensive (a.) Sensible; feeling; perceptive.
(2) - Apprehensive (a.) Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil.
(3) - Apprehensive (a.) Relating to the faculty of apprehension.
(4) - Apprehensive (a.) Knowing; conscious; cognizant.
(5) - Apprehensive (a.) Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning.

(1) - Apprehensively (adv.) In an apprehensive manner; with apprehension of danger.