All 3 Uses
comprehend
in
The Crystal Shard
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- He came to his senses groggily and, at first, could not comprehend his surroundings as he wriggled out of a blanket that he did not remember bringing.†
Book 3 *comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
- He saw the terror in Heafstaag's eye transcend into incomprehension.†
Book 3incomprehension = lack of understanding of somethingstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incomprehension means not and reverses the meaning of comprehension. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- The demon still believed that it had guessed correctly, but it couldn't understand why the drow didn't comprehend the name.†
Book 3comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
Definitions:
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(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."