Both Uses
comprehend
in
A Bend in the Road
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- Miles looked across the table, and Charlie feigned a look of sudden comprehension.†
Chpt 2 *comprehension = the understanding of something
- It was then, with a sudden jolt of comprehension, that I knew what the file was about.†
Chpt 25
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."