Clues for the word "APPREHEND"
We've had 20 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 28 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on September 24, 2025.
Definition of apprehend
- v. t. - To take or seize; to take hold of.
- v. t. - Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
- 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.
- v. t. - To know or learn with certainty.
- v. t. - To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
- v. i. - To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
- v. i. - To be apprehensive; to fear.
Referring Clues
- Collar
- Take in
- Understand and run in
- Fear capture
- Recognise and arrest
- Arrest
- Fear arrest
- Gather lady's returned to hang about
- Arrest suspect
- Cotton on collar
- Catch; understand
- Understand and put under arrest
- Arrest, grasp
- Anxiously await arrest
- Tack on, holding woman back from arrest
- Arrest for a crime (9
- Arrest for a crime
- Understand the lady's coming back and hang about
- Grasp collar
- Collar, as a suspect
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - September 24, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 31, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 25, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - March 22, 2024
- Your Life Choices - September 20, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - May 25, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - December 13, 2022
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 16, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - June 14, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - May 20, 2017
- Guardian Prize - March 25, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 23, 2016
- LA Times - June 18, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - October 15, 2014
- Universal - February 14, 2014
- Guardian Speedy - September 18, 2011
- Guardian Quick - April 17, 2011
- Guardian Quiptic - March 14, 2011
- Guardian Speedy - October 10, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - May 17, 2010
- Guardian Speedy - September 13, 2009
- Guardian Prize - August 16, 2008
- Guardian Quiptic - November 07, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - August 31, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - June 02, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - February 16, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - March 12, 2002
- New York Times - July 20, 1997