Both Uses
comprehend
in
Slammed, by Colleen Hoover
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- I can't possibly comprehend at this moment what it must be like to actually have a broken heart.†
p. 75.3 *comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
- There's a bunch of wires and metal; that's about all I can comprehend from a mechanical standpoint.†
p. 107.2
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."