Usually means: Caught or detained by authorities.
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  1. apprehended: Merriam-Webster
  2. apprehended: Collins English Dictionary
  3. apprehended: Vocabulary.com
  4. Apprehended, apprehended: Wordnik
  5. apprehended: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. apprehended: Wiktionary
  7. Apprehended, apprehended: Dictionary.com
  8. apprehended: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Apprehended: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. apprehended: Rhymezone
  11. Apprehended: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. apprehended: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. apprehended: FreeDictionary.org
  14. apprehended: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. apprehended: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. apprehended: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (apprehended)

▸ adjective:  Taken; seized.
▸ adjective:  Conceived; understood.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Having come to accept an understanding of something.

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

Opposite:
released, let go, freed

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actual, constructive, subjective, objective, more...

Phrases:
apprehended violence order, more...

Adjectives:
first, last, best, hourly, evil, present, long, little, next, greatest, ill

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

Opposite:
released, let go, freed

Types:
actual, constructive, subjective, objective, more...

Phrases:
apprehended violence order, more...

Adjectives:
first, last, best, hourly, evil, present, long, little, next, greatest, ill

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



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