All 5 Uses
comprehend
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Red Queen
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- Gisa embroiders at the table, making something beautiful and exquisite and entirely beyond my comprehension.†
p. 13.5 *comprehension = the understanding of something
- I've heard rumors of cities farther south, near the capital, Archeon, where greatly skilled Reds build machines beyond my comprehension.†
p. 20.8
- Gisa guides me past a bakery with cakes dusted in gold, a grocer displaying brightly colored fruits I've never seen before, and even a menagerie full of wild animals beyond my comprehension.†
p. 31.2
- But this kind of anger, this murderous, destructive, terrible scene is beyond my comprehension.†
p. 340.7
- I try to nod, I try to understand his ability, his simple existence, but I can't comprehend much more than the circle of his arms around me.†
p. 380.9comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
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."