All 3 Uses of
comprehend
in
BoneMan's Daughters
- For the first time since seeing what he'd seen in the desert, Ryan's mind was able to comprehend Kahlid's anguish at losing his child.†
Chpt 20 *comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
- Or is that too much for your small head to comprehend?†
Chpt 28
- He saw the entire scene as if it were a single snapshot that his mind had studied for long seconds, not the mere moment it took for him to comprehend what he was looking at.†
Chpt 38
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) 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."