PREHEND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prehend mean? 

• PREHEND (verb)
  The verb PREHEND has 1 sense:

1. take hold of; grab

  Familiarity information: PREHEND used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREHEND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they prehend    ... he / she / it prehends   
Past simple: prehended   
Past participle: prehended   
-ing form: prehending   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take hold of; grab

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

clutch; prehend; seize

Context example:

Birds of prey often seize small mammals

Hypernyms (to "prehend" is one way to...):

get hold of; take (get into one's hands, take physically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "prehend"):

nab (seize suddenly)

rack (seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block)

claw (clutch as if in panic)

apprehend; arrest; collar; cop; nab; nail; pick up (take into custody)

capture; catch; get (succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase)

collar (seize by the neck or collar)

clasp (grasp firmly)

grip (hold fast or firmly)

grab (take or grasp suddenly)

catch; grab; take hold of (take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of)

snap; snatch; snatch up (to grasp hastily or eagerly)

clench; clinch (hold in a tight grasp)

grapple; grip (to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

prehension (the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles))