All 8 Uses of
comprehend
in
Harry Potter (#6) and the Half-Blood Prince
- His comprehension catching up with his senses, Harry realized that he had just Apparated for the first time in his life.†
Chpt 4 *
- All three of the Gaunts seemed to have forgotten Ogden, who was looking both bewildered and irritated at this renewed outbreak of incomprehensible hissing and rasping.†
Chpt 10
- He had known Hagrid to present a vicious baby dragon with a teddy bear, seen him croon over giant scorpions with suckers and stingers, attempt to reason with his brutal giant of a halfbrother, but this was perhaps the most incomprehensible of all his monster fancies: the gigantic talking spider, Aragog, who dwelled deep in the Forbidden Forest and which he and Ron had only narrowly escaped four years previously.†
Chpt 11
- "Werewolves," he added, at Harrys look of incomprehension.†
Chpt 16
- I "Er-my-nee," croaked Ron unexpectedly from between them They all fell silent, watching him anxiously, but after muttering incomprehensibly for a moment he merely started snoring.†
Chpt 19
- Hagrid simply looked at him, the little of his face that could be seen completely blank, uncomprehending.†
Chpt 28
- Then he gazed down at the wise old face and tried to absorb the enormous and incomprehensible truth: that never again would Dumbledore speak to him, never again could he help—— The crowd murmured behind Harry.†
Chpt 28
- Incomprehensible voices battered him, sobs and shouts and wails stabbed the night, but Harry and Ginny walked on, back up the steps into the entrance hall.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
-
(comprehend) to understand something -- especially to understand it completely