Both Uses
comprehend
in
Tuck Everlasting
(Edited)
- For her part, Winnie, now that the running was over, began to comprehend what was happening,
p. 34.1 *comprehend = understand
- For her part, Winnie, now that the running was over, began to comprehend what was happening, and with the comprehension her throat closed and her mouth went dry as paper.
p. 34.1comprehension = understanding
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."