All 6 Uses
comprehend
in
Breaking Dawn, by Meyer
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- I tried to comprehend, through the film of tears blinding me, the surreal fact that this amazing person was mine.†
Book 1 *comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
- For a moment, the absence of pain was all I could comprehend.†
Book 3
- I flipped off my back in a spin so fast it should have turned the room into an incomprehensible blur—but it did not.†
Book 3incomprehensible = not understandablestandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incomprehensible means not and reverses the meaning of comprehensible. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- I could feel it as the same comprehension sunk in around me.†
Book 3comprehension = the understanding of something
- Irina stared at him uncomprehendingly, her face like that of someone who has not entirely awakened from a hideous nightmare.†
Book 3uncomprehendingly = 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.
- His eyes moved unexpectedly to Jacob, and instead of the disgust the other Volturi viewed the giant wolf with, Aro's eyes were filled with a longing that I did not comprehend.†
Book 3comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
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."