comprehend
/ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnd/ verb C2- To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly; to plumb. · I just can't comprehend how someone could be a butcher and vegetarian at the same time.
He/she/it comprehends · Past comprehended · Past participle comprehended · -ing form comprehending
Verb forms
- Base form
- comprehend
- He/she/it
- comprehends
- Past
- comprehended
- Past participle
- comprehended
- -ing form
- comprehending
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He already knew Italian, and had also picked up a little of the Romaic dialect during voyages to the East; and by the aid of these two languages he easily comprehended the construction of all the others, so that at the end of six months he began to speak Spanish, English, and German.
“Do you know, my dear Villefort,” cried the Comte de Salvieux, “that is exactly what I myself said the other day at the Tuileries, when questioned by his majesty’s principal chamberlain touching the singularity of an alliance between the son of a Girondin and the daughter of an officer of the Duc de Condé; and I assure you he seemed fully to comprehend that this mode of reconciling political differences was based upon sound and excellent principles.
Franz read it twice before he could comprehend what it contained.
Marilla’s impassioned grief, breaking all the bounds of natural reserve and lifelong habit in its stormy rush, she could comprehend better than Anne’s tearless agony.
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