apprehend

Other forms of apprehend

past tense

apprehended·

present participle

apprehending·

third person

apprehends·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about apprehend

What does apprehend mean?

apprehend means "get the meaning of something". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in apprehend?

apprehend has 3 syllables: ap-pre-hend. The stress falls on "hend". In IPA it is /ˌæpɹɪˈhɛnd/.

What is another word for apprehend?

Close synonyms include grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is apprehend a common word?

apprehend is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with apprehend?

1 word rhymes with apprehend. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.