Apprehend

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.