All 11 Uses of
comprehend
in
The Red Badge of Courage
- He must look to the grave for comprehension.†
Chpt 3
- Or else they didn't comprehend—the fools.†
Chpt 6
- Perhaps the general, unable to comprehend chaos, might call upon him for information.†
Chpt 6
- At last he spoke as if dimly comprehending.
Chpt 9 *comprehending = understanding
- And it could always be seen that they were bewildered by the alleged news and could not fully comprehend a defeat.†
Chpt 16
- "Oh," he said, comprehending.†
Chpt 17
- Sometimes his voice could be heard in a wild, incomprehensible laugh.†
Chpt 17
- 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.†
Chpt 18
- 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.†
Chpt 19
- The whole affair seemed incomprehensible to many of them.†
Chpt 19
- Gradually his brain emerged from the clogged clouds, and at last he was enabled to more closely comprehend himself and circumstance.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(comprehend) to understand something -- especially to understand it completely