formal or literary to arrest or seize (a suspected person, etc)
In any other part of the country the drug dealers would have been apprehended in a series of dawn raids — Independent
to understand or perceive (something)
Society is apprehended as a social system for the organization of production
dated to anticipate (danger, difficulty, etc)
No real danger was at any time apprehended — Poe
[Middle English apprehenden from Latin apprehendere to seize]