Arrest vs Apprehend - What's the difference?
arrest | apprehend | Synonyms |
A check, stop, an act or instance of something.
The condition of being stopped, standstill.
(legal) The act of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
A device to physically arrest motion.
(nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
(obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
* Jeremy Taylor
(farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.
(obsolete) To stop the motion of (a person or animal).
* Philips
(obsolete) To stay, remain.
To stop (a process, course etc.).
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 707:
* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
* Shakespeare
To catch the attention of.
* 1919 : :
(archaic) To take or seize; to take hold of.
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To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest.
To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
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To anticipate; especially, to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
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To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
To be apprehensive; to fear.
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(material dates from 1913)
Apprehend is a synonym of arrest.
In transitive terms the difference between arrest and apprehend
is that arrest is to catch the attention of while apprehend is to anticipate; especially, to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.As verbs the difference between arrest and apprehend
is that arrest is to stop the motion of (a person or animal) while apprehend is to take or seize; to take hold of.As a noun arrest
is a check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.arrest
English
Noun
(en noun)- The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.
- (White)
Derived terms
* arrest warrant * cardiac arrest * house arrestVerb
(en verb)- Nor could her virtues the relentless hand / Of Death arrest .
- (Spenser)
- To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting.
- Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …Western reason had entered the age of judgement.
- The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.
- I arrest thee of high treason.
- There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular.
Derived terms
* arrester, arrestor * arrestment * arrestingAnagrams
* * * * ----apprehend
English
Verb
(en verb)- We have two hands to apprehend it.
- to apprehend a criminal .
- This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it.
- The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them.
- The opposition had more reason than the king to apprehend violence.
- It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
Usage notes
To apprehend, comprehend. These words come into comparison as describing acts of the mind. Apprehend denotes the laying hold of a thing mentally, so as to understand it clearly, at least in part. Comprehend denotes the embracing or understanding it in all its compass and extent. We may apprehend many truths which we do not comprehend. The very idea of God supposes that he may be apprehended, though not comprehended, by rational beings. We may apprehend much of Shakespeare's aim and intention in the character of Hamlet or King Lear; but few will claim that they have comprehended all that is embraced in these characters. --Trench.(material dates from 1913)