APPREHENDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apprehended mean? 

• APPREHENDED (adjective)
  The adjective APPREHENDED has 1 sense:

1. fully understood or grasped

  Familiarity information: APPREHENDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPREHENDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fully understood or grasped

Synonyms:

appreciated; apprehended; comprehended

Context example:

a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known

Similar:

understood (fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation)

 Context examples 

Within each of these was enclosed a prodigious plate of steel; which, by our orders, we obliged him to show us, because we apprehended they might be dangerous engines.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Mrs. R. knows a decline is apprehended; he saw her this morning: she returns to Wimpole Street to-day; the old lady is come.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Donavan says there is nothing materially to be apprehended; her constitution is a good one, and her resolution equal to any thing.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“Ma'am,” returned Mr. Chillip, “I apprehended you had known. It's a boy.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In the past White Fang had experienced delayed punishments, and he apprehended that such a one was about to befall him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The servant instantly showed it to one of the others, who, without saying a word to any of the family, went to a magistrate; and, upon their deposition, Justine was apprehended.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“I have inquired at every point where it might be, and I am sure that there is no danger to be apprehended.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Is the danger you apprehended last night gone by now, sir?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have been always telling you, my love, that I had no idea of the change being so very material to Hartfield as you apprehended; and now you have Emma's account, I hope you will be satisfied.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Their parties abroad were less varied than before, and at home she had a mother and sister whose constant repinings at the dullness of everything around them threw a real gloom over their domestic circle; and, though Kitty might in time regain her natural degree of sense, since the disturbers of her brain were removed, her other sister, from whose disposition greater evil might be apprehended, was likely to be hardened in all her folly and assurance by a situation of such double danger as a watering-place and a camp.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)