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Definition
to understand something — especially to understand it completely
- Our situation was so strange and incomprehensible that for three or four hours, until the dawn came, we scarcely moved.2.1 — Book 2 Chapter 1 — Under Foot (80% in)
- 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.1.14 — Book 1 Chapter 14 — In London (83% in)
- 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.2.8 — Book 2 Chapter 8 — Dead London (75% in)
- To me also at that time this death was incomprehensible.2.8 — Book 2 Chapter 8 — Dead London (76% in)
There are no more uses of "comprehend" in The War of the Worlds.
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