All 4 Uses

comprehend
in
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
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Slowly rising, he looks around at the hundreds of startled men who are trying to comprehend the scene in front of them.†
p. 9.1 *

comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
He finds his lack of comprehension amusing, though he doesn't dare smile.†
p. 130.1

comprehension = the understanding of something
For as long as he lives, be it short or long, he knows he will never comprehend this.†
p. 165.9

comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
Lale has stepped into a world beyond his comprehension.†
p. 229.1

comprehension = the understanding of something

Definitions:

(1) (comprehend)
to understand something -- especially to understand it completely
(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."