All 6 Uses
comprehend
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The Angel Experiment
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- Dizzily, I fell back, the two Erasers pinning me, and with uncomprehending horror I saw three other Erasers stuffing Angel, my baby, into a rough sack.†
p. 6.7uncomprehending = not understandingstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncomprehending means not and reverses the meaning of comprehending. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- The look of comprehending horror that rose in my face alarmed Dr. Martinez.†
p. 43.1 *comprehending = understanding
- At my uncomprehending stare, she said, "Not after seeing the hawks go through rabbits and snakes and other birds.†
p. 57.2uncomprehending = not understandingstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncomprehending means not and reverses the meaning of comprehending. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Inside my brain, images flashed incomprehensibly, making me sick, assaulting my senses with pictures, words, sounds.†
p. 85.6incomprehensibly = in a manner that cannot be understoodstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incomprehensibly means not and reverses the meaning of comprehensibly. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- I looked down at Gazzy and Angel to see them staring, wide-eyed and slack-jawed, at too many fabulous toys to even comprehend.†
p. 91.2comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
- The poor baby looked back at me uncomprehendingly.†
p. 129.8uncomprehendingly = without understandingstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncomprehendingly means not and reverses the meaning of comprehendingly. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Definitions:
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(1)
(comprehend) to understand something -- especially to understand it completely
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(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."