Sample Sentences for
comprehend
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    You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me.  (source)
    comprehend = fully understand
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    It took a moment for Stanley to comprehend.  (source)
    comprehend = understand
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    For her part, Winnie, now that the running was over, began to comprehend what was happening,  (source)
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    That's the sort of thing I'll never know, or comprehend—what humans are capable of.  (source)
    comprehend = fully understand
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    The mayor's voice kept coming in blasts of incomprehensible sound, and the people in the crowd were either shouting angrily or yelping in fear of being squashed.  (source)
    incomprehensible = not understandable
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incomprehensible means not and reverses the meaning of comprehensible. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    The others nodded in perfect comprehension.  (source)
    comprehension = understanding
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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    Also they spoke different variations of English, different Englishes, and so when Nadia gave voice to an idea or opinion among them, she did not need to fear that her views could not be comprehended, for her English was like theirs, one among many.†  (source)
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    ...a listener, comprehending nothing of the language in which the preacher spoke, might still have been swayed to and fro by the mere tone and cadence.  (source)
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    He would have been amazed, uncomprehending if I refused to forgive him.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncomprehending means not and reverses the meaning of comprehending. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    That was comprehensible.  (source)
    comprehensible = understandable
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    I look up, to see Suze staring at me in utter incomprehension.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incomprehension means not and reverses the meaning of comprehension. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    For a moment, he'd stared at her uncomprehendingly.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncomprehendingly means not and reverses the meaning of comprehendingly. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    A staticky voice from above drones incomprehensibly.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incomprehensibly means not and reverses the meaning of comprehensibly. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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