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- an apprehended crime lord who can easily post the million-dollar bail
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apprehended
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of apprehended (Entry 2 of 2)
- do you apprehend the importance of this discovery?
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- appreciated,
- assimilated,
- beheld,
- caught,
- caught on (to),
- cognized,
- compassed,
- comprehended,
- conceived,
- cottoned (to or on to),
- deciphered,
- decoded,
- discerned,
- dug,
- got,
- grasped,
- grokked,
- intuited,
- knew,
- made,
- made out,
- perceived,
- recognized,
- registered,
- savvied,
- saw,
- seized,
- sensed,
- tumbled (to),
- twigged,
- understood
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- the agency charged with apprehending criminals who have violated federal law
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- bagged,
- captured,
- caught,
- got,
- grabbed,
- grappled,
- hooked,
- landed,
- snapped (up),
- snared,
- snatched,
- trapped
- committed,
- confined,
- detained,
- held,
- immured,
- imprisoned,
- incarcerated,
- interned,
- jailed,
- jugged,
- locked (up)
- bound,
- enchained,
- fettered,
- handcuffed,
- manacled,
- shackled,
- trammeled
- (or trammelled)
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“Apprehended.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apprehended. Accessed 22 Oct. 2021.
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