Usually means: Understanding or perceiving with arrest.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. apprehending: Merriam-Webster
  2. apprehending: Collins English Dictionary
  3. apprehending: Vocabulary.com
  4. Apprehending, apprehending: Wordnik
  5. apprehending: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. apprehending: Wiktionary
  7. Apprehending, apprehending: Dictionary.com
  8. apprehending: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Apprehending: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Apprehending: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. apprehending: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. apprehending: FreeDictionary.org
  13. apprehending: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. apprehending: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (apprehending)

▸ noun:  An act by which something is apprehended.

Similar:
get the picture, comprehend, cop, arrest, grasp, pick up, nab, savvy, dig, compass, more...

Opposite:
comprehending, understanding, grasping

Types:
perceiving, sensing, recognizing, noticing, seeing, viewing, observing, more...

Adjectives:
presuppositionless, such, quick, direct, correct, first, better, rational, mere, obscure, own

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Similar:
get the picture, comprehend, cop, arrest, grasp, pick up, nab, savvy, dig, compass, more...

Opposite:
comprehending, understanding, grasping

Types:
perceiving, sensing, recognizing, noticing, seeing, viewing, observing, more...

Adjectives:
presuppositionless, such, quick, direct, correct, first, better, rational, mere, obscure, own

Colors:
    gray,     blue,     black,     dark green,     charcoal, more...



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