Both Uses
comprehend
in
Holes, by Louis Sachar
(Edited)
- It took a moment for Stanley to comprehend.
p. 175.7 *comprehend = understand
- He felt as if he was walking in a dream, not quite able to comprehend what was going on around him.
p. 217.4comprehend = fully understand
Definitions:
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(1)
(comprehend) to understand something -- especially to understand it completely
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely (and more frequently in the past), comprehend can mean to include as part of something broader. That was the first sense of the word listed in Webster's Dictionary of 1828 with this sample sentence: "The empire of Great Britain comprehends England, Scotland and Ireland, with their dependencies."