All 3 Uses of
fathom
in
David Copperfield
- 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.†
Chpt 10-12
- I fathomed the depth of the rascal's whole scheme, and understood why he laid it bare.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- I assured her that its profundity was quite unfathomable, and expressed my belief that nothing like it had ever been known.†
Chpt 34-36
Definition:
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(fathom as in: can't fathom) to come to understand