"പിടികൂടപ്പെട്ടു" എന്ന വാക്കിന്റെ നിഘണ്ടു അർത്ഥം ഒരു പ്രതിയെയോ കുറ്റവാളിയെയോ അറസ്റ്റ് ചെയ്യുക അല്ലെങ്കിൽ പിടിക്കുക എന്നാണ്. എന്തെങ്കിലും മനസ്സിലാക്കുക അല്ലെങ്കിൽ മനസ്സിലാക്കുക, പ്രത്യേകിച്ച് സങ്കീർണ്ണമോ മനസ്സിലാക്കാൻ ബുദ്ധിമുട്ടുള്ളതോ ആയ ഒന്ന്.
1. I had instinctively flinched when he took hold, but it was nothing like when the overseers had apprehended me so they could drag me off to be punished.
2. You will not have apprehended me rightly, however, if you suppose it my design to deny this thicket as the scene of the outrage.
3. The main fury of the blast had already blown over, and we apprehended little danger from the violence of the wind but we looked forward to its total cessation with dismay well believing, that, in our shattered condition, we should inevitably perish in the tremendous swell which would ensue.
4. Pray excuse me but supposing any little inconvenience may be apprehended from the intimacy, it cannot be expected that Emma, accountable to nobody but her father, who perfectly approves the acquaintance, should put an end to it, so long as it is a source of pleasure to herself.
5. They apprehended my breaking loose, that my diet would be very expensive and might cause a famine.
6. Within each of these was inclosed a prodigious plate of steel which, by our orders, we obliged him to show us, because we apprehended they might be dangerous engines.
7. All I ventured was to raise my eyes towards the sun and place my hands together in a supplicating posture, and to speak some words in a humble melancholy tone, suitable to the condition I then was in for I apprehended every moment that he would dash me against the ground, as we usually do any little hateful animal which we have a mind to destroy.
8. She apprehended some mischief would happen to me from rude vulgar folks, who might squeeze me to death or break one of my limbs by taking me in their hands.
9. He, who apprehended I could not live a month, was ready enough to part with me, and demanded a thousand pieces of gold, which were ordered him on the spot, each piece being about the bigness of eight hundred moidores but allowing for the proportion of all things between that country and Europe, and the high price of gold among them, was hardly so great a sum as a thousand guineas would be in England.
10. I apprehended it to be a rock, and found myself tossed more than ever.