Definitions
get the meaning of something
Word origin
From Middle English comprehenden, from Latin comprehendere (“to grasp”), from the prefix com- + prehendere (“to seize”). Doublet of comprend.
Used in a sentence
“I just can't comprehend how someone could be a butcher and vegetarian at the same time.”
“Our ſoules, whoſe faculties can comprehend The wondrous Architecture of the world: And meaſure euery wandring planets courſe, Still climing after knowledge infinite, […]”
“And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […].”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Take in mentally”10 letters
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