Deprehend vs Reprehend - What's the difference?
deprehend | reprehend |
To take unawares or by surprise; to catch or seize (a criminal etc.) in the act.
To detect; to discover; to find out.
As verbs the difference between deprehend and reprehend
is that deprehend is to take unawares or by surprise; to catch or seize (a criminal etc) in the act while reprehend is to criticize, to reprove.deprehend
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(en verb)- The deprehended adulteress. — Jeremy Taylor.
- The motions of the minute parts of bodies are to be deprehended by experience. — Francis Bacon.