deprehend
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To take unawares or by surprise; to catch or seize (a criminal etc.) in the act.
— The deprehended adulteress
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To detect; to discover; to find out.
— The motions of the minute parts of bodies […] are to be deprehended by experience.
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From Latin deprehendere, deprehensum, from de- + prehendere (“to lay hold of, seize”). See prehensile.
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