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comprehend

Best crossword clue

"Take in mentally"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /kɒmpɹɪˈhɛnd/Part of speech verbSorted cdeehmnoprStarts with CEnds with D1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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 […].

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