Arrest vs. Apprehend
Arrest and Apprehend Definitions
Arrest
To stop; check
A brake that automatically arrests motion.
Arrested the growth of the tumor.
Apprehend
To take into custody; arrest
Apprehended the murderer.
Arrest
To seize and hold under the authority of law.
Apprehend
To grasp mentally; understand
"Science is the systematic method by which we apprehend what is true about the real world in which we live" (Richard Dawkins).
Arrest
To capture and hold briefly (the attention, for example); engage.
Apprehend
To become conscious of, as through the emotions or senses; perceive
"She began to look with her own eyes.
To see and to apprehend the deeper undercurrents of life" (Kate Chopin).
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Arrest
To undergo cardiac arrest
The patient arrested en route to the hospital.
Apprehend
(Archaic) To anticipate with worry or dread.
Arrest
The act of detaining in legal custody
The arrest of a criminal suspect.
Apprehend
To understand something.
Arrest
The state of being so detained
A suspect under arrest.
Apprehend
(transitive)
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Arrest
A device for stopping motion, especially of a moving part.
Apprehend
To be or become aware of (something); to perceive.
Arrest
The act of stopping or the condition of being stopped.
Apprehend
To acknowledge the existence of (something); to recognize.
Arrest
A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
Apprehend
To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
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Arrest
The condition of being stopped, standstill.
Apprehend
To have a conception of (something); to consider, to regard.
Arrest
(legal) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
Apprehend
To anticipate (something, usually unpleasant); especially, to anticipate (something) with anxiety, dread, or fear; to dread, to fear.
Arrest
A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
Apprehend
To seize or take (something); to take hold of.
Arrest
A device to physically arrest motion.
Apprehend
(law enforcement) To seize or take (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
Officers apprehended the suspect two streets away from the bank.
Arrest
(nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
Apprehend
(obsolete)
Arrest
(obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
Apprehend
(intransitive)
Arrest
(farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
Apprehend
To be of opinion, believe, or think; to suppose.
Arrest
To stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part).
Apprehend
To understand.
Arrest
To stay, remain.
Apprehend
To be apprehensive; to fear.
Arrest
(transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
Apprehend
To take or seize; to take hold of.
We have two hands to apprehend it.
Arrest
(transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.
Apprehend
Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
Arrest
(transitive) To catch the attention of.
Apprehend
To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it.
The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them.
Arrest
To undergo cardiac arrest.
Apprehend
To know or learn with certainty.
G. You are too much distrustful of my truth.E. Then you must give me leave to apprehendThe means and manner how.
Arrest
To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.
Nor could her virtues the relentless handOf Death arrest.
Apprehend
To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
The opposition had more reason than the king to apprehend violence.
Arrest
To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime.
Apprehend
To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
Arrest
To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention.
Apprehend
To be apprehensive; to fear.
It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
Arrest
To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate.
We may arrest our thoughts upon the divine mercies.
Apprehend
Get the meaning of something;
Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?
Arrest
To tarry; to rest.
Apprehend
Take into custody;
The police nabbed the suspected criminals
Arrest
The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development.
As the arrest of the air showeth.
Apprehend
Anticipate with dread or anxiety
Arrest
The taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant.
William . . . ordered him to be put under arrest.
[Our brother Norway] sends out arrestsOn Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys.
Arrest
Any seizure by power, physical or moral.
The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., . . . were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.
Arrest
A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; - also named rat-tails.
Arrest
The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal);
The policeman on the beat got credit for the collar
Arrest
The state of inactivity following an interruption;
The negotiations were in arrest
Held them in check
During the halt he got some lunch
The momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow
He spent the entire stop in his seat
Arrest
Take into custody;
The police nabbed the suspected criminals
Arrest
Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of;
Arrest the downward trend
Check the growth of communism in Sout East Asia
Contain the rebel movement
Turn back the tide of communism
Arrest
Attract and fix;
His look caught her
She caught his eye
Catch the attention of the waiter
Arrest
Cause to stop;
Halt the engines
Arrest the progress
Halt the presses
