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Definition of apprehend : 1. Hence: To take or seize ( a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
2. To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
3. To be apprehensive; to fear.
4. To know or learn with certainty.
5. To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
6. To take or seize; to take hold of.
7. To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.

Synonyms:

hold on, gather up, dig out, jab, know, uplift, ken, circumnavigate, travail, excavate, tumble, sail through, nick, halt, intuit, toil, turn over, lift up, hope, hear, make sense of something, fathom, gain vigor, book, check, conceive, assimilate, feel, labour, encompass, hook, cut into, grind, perk, sweep through, hollow, collect, savvy, hold, nail, appreciate, pass with flying colors, cotton, call for, follow, turn back, percolate, run in, snitch, see the light, discern, poke, apprehension, see, body search, decode, breeze through, bounty hunter, contain, drudge, perceive, complete, compass, boom, foretaste, nab, receive, restrain, get the picture, smash, labor, bust, breath test, perk up, decipher, law, comprehend, blast, register, twig, make out, hold back, dig, sense, elate, peg, turn around, understand, learn, have a feel for something, dig up, cover, quail at, intoxicate, get wind, nail down, thieve, get word, forecast, get a line, fall/fit into place, knock off, grok, behold, cognize, pinch, accept, take in, glom, read, work out, breathalyze, recognize, stop, pull in, make, embrace, get the idea, pinpoint, knowledge, prod, stab, cop, peck, ace, discover, catch on, delve, pick-up, find out, grasp, look forward to, moil

achieve, snare, collar, snatch, win, abduct, arrest, occupy, seize, take, obtain, gain, secure, capture, catch, get

envisage, foreknow, assume, infer, presume, foresee, dread, forebode, surmise, await, envision, gather, presuppose, deduce, imagine, suspect, contemplate, anticipate, expect

Usage examples:

• It is to an extraordinary degree human, dealing all along with names as familiar to us as any in any history can be; with characters which are perfectly individual; with lives lived in the face of difficulty, danger, trial, sorrow, as concrete as possible; with deaths met and overcome under conditions of mystery, suspense, trial to courage and to trust, which for all time the heart of man can apprehend in their solemnity. - "Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews", Handley C.G. Moule.
• I apprehend this war must catch from nation to nation, till it becomes general. - "Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson", Thomas Jefferson.
• The fact alone of a profit having been made, whether much or little, affords a strong proof of the advantages of associated effort, for we apprehend that either farmers or mechanics working separately, would generally find it difficult to show a balance in their favor upon the settlement of their accounts. - "History of American Socialisms", John Humphrey Noyes.