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Definition
to come to understand
- I fathomed the depth of the rascal's whole scheme, and understood why he laid it bare.Chapters 25-27 (38% in)
- Now, I was unwilling to put the direction-card on there, lest any of my landlord's family should fathom what I was doing, and detain me; so I said to the young man that I would be glad if he would stop for a minute, when he came to the dead-wall of the King's Bench prison.Chapters 10-12 (98% in)
There are no more uses of "fathom" in David Copperfield.
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