| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To take into custody as a prisoner: arrest, seize. Informal : nab, pick up. Slang : bust, collar, pinch, run in. See LAW. 2. To perceive directly with the intellect: compass, comprehend, fathom, grasp, know, understand. Scots : ken. See KNOWLEDGE. 3. To be intuitively aware of: feel, intuit, perceive, sense. Idioms: feel in one's bones, get vibrations. See KNOWLEDGE. 4. To perceive and recognize the meaning of: accept, catch (on), compass, comprehend, conceive, fathom, follow, get, grasp, make out, read, see, sense, take, take in, understand. Informal : savvy. Slang : dig. Chiefly British : twig. Scots : ken. Idioms: get (or have) a handle on, get the picture. See UNDERSTAND.
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