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to understand something — especially to understand it completely
- After a fortnight of rejections, he and Mum admitted they would have to apply for benefits, just to tide them over, and spent their evenings poring over incomprehensible fifty-page forms that asked how many people used their washing machine, and when was the last time they had left the country (Dad thought it might have been 1988).p. 209.8
- They looked at me with faint distaste—or perhaps even incomprehension—no doubt weighing up my fat-to-muscle ratio and finding it wanting.p. 60.3
- And then, as I stood, dumbly struggling to comprehend, he added, "It's only at weekends.p. 219.9
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