Usually means: Grasp, seize, or understand something.
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  1. prehend: Merriam-Webster
  2. prehend: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prehend: Vocabulary.com
  4. prehend: Wordnik
  5. prehend: Wiktionary
  6. Prehend, prehend: Dictionary.com
  7. Prehend: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. prehend: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. prehend: Rhymezone
  10. Prehend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. prehend: FreeDictionary.org
  12. prehend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Prehend: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PREHEND: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  2. prehend-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prehend: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prehend)

▸ verb:  (philosophy) To perceive in the manner of Alfred North Whitehead's concept of prehension.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To lay hold of; to seize.

Similar:
seize, clutch, precomprehend, preperceive, foregrasp, foresense, forefeel, foreken, presage, forethink, more...

Opposite:
release, let go, relinquish

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Similar:
seize, clutch, precomprehend, preperceive, foregrasp, foresense, forefeel, foreken, presage, forethink, more...

Opposite:
release, let go, relinquish



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