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Definition
to understand something — especially to understand it completely
- At last he spoke as if dimly comprehending.Chapter 9 (56% in)
comprehending = understanding
- He must look to the grave for comprehension.Chapter 3 (90% in)
- Or else they didn't comprehend—the fools.Chapter 6 (76% in)
- Perhaps the general, unable to comprehend chaos, might call upon him for information.Chapter 6 (85% in)
- And it could always be seen that they were bewildered by the alleged news and could not fully comprehend a defeat.Chapter 16 (26% in)
- "Oh," he said, comprehending.Chapter 17 (68% in)
- Sometimes his voice could be heard in a wild, incomprehensible laugh.Chapter 17 (91% in)
- From their position as they again faced toward the place of the fighting, they could of comprehend a greater amount of the battle than when their visions had been blurred by the hurling smoke of the line.Chapter 18 (20% in)
- And the men of the regiment, with their starting eyes and sweating faces, running madly, or falling, as if thrown headlong, to queer, heaped-up corpses—all were comprehended.Chapter 19 (28% in)
- The whole affair seemed incomprehensible to many of them.Chapter 19 (69% in)
- Gradually his brain emerged from the clogged clouds, and at last he was enabled to more closely comprehend himself and circumstance.Chapter 24 (35% in)
There are no more uses of "comprehend" in The Red Badge of Courage.
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