Both Uses
comprehend
in
The Lost Boy
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- But I still couldn't comprehend.†
Chpt 5comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
- It took several blinks of my eyes for me to comprehend that it was Lilian's face, and not Mother's, that I was gawking at.
Chpt 7 *
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."