prehend's Usage Examples:

been passed by all previous collectors, and what criterion was there to establish their genuineness?It is important to understand clearly the criterion which he applied; it is frequently misapprehended.

Howie nailed it on the first try, managed to catch a license plate number, and a killer was apprehended in hours.

apprehend any suspects.

misapprehended the material facts before him.

I am confident that the police will apprehend the criminals soon.

The highest faculty of man, reason, intellectus, intellectualis visio, is that which is not content with the individual or partial, but grasps the whole and thereby comprehends the parts.

"The essence, indeed, comprehends all natures, and everything that exists is a portion of this essence, by participation in which everything that is hath its existence.

But what they retained of ancient literature they could not comprehend in the right spirit.

Synonyms:

rack, snatch up, catch, take, grapple, get hold of, clench, snatch, capture, arrest, cop, snap, collar, nab, get, pick up, nail, grab, take hold of, clutch, claw, clasp, clinch, grip, seize, apprehend,

Antonyms:

unclasp, undercharge, repel, get off, detach,