Definition of apprehends

"apprehends" in the verb sense

1. grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend

get the meaning of something

"Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"

2. collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop

take into custody

"the police nabbed the suspected criminals"

3. apprehend, quail at

anticipate with dread or anxiety

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Quotations for apprehends

Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which man is lifted up above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention; purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God, purity apprehends and tastes him. [ Thomas a Kempis ]

apprehends in Scrabble®

The word apprehends is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 18

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters apprehends:

APPREHENDS
(171)
APPREHENDS
(171)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (28 words)

adheres, appends, arsheen, dappers, endears, handers, happens, hardens, headers, heapers, hearsed, nappers, panders, papered, perhaps, phrased, prepend, reheaps, reshape, respade, sharped, sharpen, sheared, snapped, snapper, speared, spender, sphered

 

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In apprehends

APPREHENDS
(171)
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(171)
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(114)
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apprehends in Words With Friends™

The word apprehends is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 20

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters apprehends:

APPREHENDS
(252)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (28 words)

adheres, appends, arsheen, dappers, endears, handers, happens, hardens, headers, heapers, hearsed, nappers, panders, papered, perhaps, phrased, prepend, reheaps, reshape, respade, sharped, sharpen, sheared, snapped, snapper, speared, spender, sphered

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word apprehends

APPREHENDS
(252)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In apprehends

APPREHENDS
(252)
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(216)
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(132)
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Words within the letters of apprehends

2 letter words in apprehends (12 words)

8 letter words in apprehends (7 words)

9 letter words in apprehends (4 words)

10 letter words in apprehends (1 word)

apprehends + 2 blanks (2 words)

Words containing the sequence apprehends

Words that start with apprehends (1 word)

Words with apprehends in them (1 word)

Words that end with apprehends (2 words)

Word Growth involving apprehends

Shorter words in apprehends

app apprehend

eh apprehend

en end apprehend

en hen apprehend

he hen apprehend

re apprehend

en end ends

Longer words containing apprehends

misapprehends