All 4 Uses of
comprehend
in
The War of the Worlds
- For a long time my brother stared out of the window in blank astonishment, watching the policemen hammering at door after door, and delivering their incomprehensible message.†
Chpt 1.14
- Our situation was so strange and incomprehensible that for three or four hours, until the dawn came, we scarcely moved.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- Here and there they were scattered, nearly fifty altogether, in that great gulf they had made, overtaken by a death that must have seemed to them as incomprehensible as any death could be.†
Chpt 2.8
- To me also at that time this death was incomprehensible.†
Chpt 2.8
Definition:
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(comprehend) to understand something -- especially to understand it completely