All 3 Uses
comprehend
in
After Dark, by Murakami
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- Her own face marked with cuts, the prostitute looks uneasily from one to the other, unable to comprehend their give-and-take.†
Chpt 3comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
- She can't comprehend how she came to be in a place like this all alone.†
Chpt 10
- Disoriented and confused though she may be, she is exerting all her strength to comprehend the logic underlying this place-the basis of its existence.
Chpt 14 *comprehend = understand
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."