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fathom
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fathom as in:  can't fathom

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    He couldn't fathom what was stirring in the prince's mind.  (source)
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    Office of the Pope, Langdon thought, having difficulty fathoming that he was standing outside one of the most sacred rooms in all of world religion.†  (source)
    fathoming = coming to understand
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    You never know exactly what their intent is, or if you have fathomed it correctly.†  (source)
    fathomed = came to understand
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    Full of blood and violence—but also full of stories that are equally difficult to fathom.†  (source)
    fathom = come to understand
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    For reasons unfathomable to the most experienced prophets in Maycomb County, autumn turned to winter that year.  (source)
    unfathomable = not understandable
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unfathomable means not and reverses the meaning of fathomable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    To that end, the Count now tilted back his head and raised his razor, but the change in the angle of his gaze revealed two fathomless eyes staring back at him from the reflection in the mirror.†  (source)
    fathomless = impossible to understand
    standard suffix: The suffix "-less" in fathomless means without and reverses the meaning of fathom. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
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    My difficulty was further compounded by the fact that for some years my father and I had tended — for some reason I have never really fathomed — to converse less and less.†  (source)
    fathomed = came to understand
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    Here suddenly was an opening in the rocky wall which shut in the narrow valley of humiliation, where all her prospect was the remote, unfathomed sky; and some of the memory-haunting earthly delights were no longer out of her reach.†  (source)
    unfathomed = not understood
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unfathomed means not and reverses the meaning of fathomed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    If they have any success, it will be in transferring the problem of fathoming to the presumably adult reader, to the inner circle of listeners.†  (source)
    fathoming = coming to understand
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    300 Then boun they to faring, the bark biding quiet; Hung upon hawser the wide-fathom'd ship Fast at her anchor.†  (source)
    fathom'd = came to understand
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    So too, in a less fathomable way, was Diane who seemed at last prepared to let the subject drop.†  (source)
    fathomable = capable of being understood
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    Because when I returned to the house I encountered Sophie in the flesh for the first time and fell, if not instantaneously, then swiftly and fathomlessly in love with her.†  (source)
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    My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.†  (source)
    fathom = come to understand
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