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understand

verb as in sympathetically accept

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Example Sentences

This means they will make an effort to understand the complex and nuanced healthcare landscape and all the stakeholders in it.

Let’s focus on hospitalizations for a moment to understand why.

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By understanding these aspects, you can create relevant marketing content that will resonate with your audience on the platform.

You can understand if you’re in Game 6, and someone’s going home, you better be right on the play.

Builtvisible creates resources and sustains an active blog to help their clients and potential clients understand what services they need.

He appeared to understand however belatedly that he was in the presence of another kind of greatness.

Carla points out how meaningful it can be to have people in your life who simply understand what you're going through.

I understand that this is human trafficking, but I know that my people have no other option.

Is that a utilitarian approach—that you need to understand how institutions have changed to understand the way they are?

If you look at the history, you can really understand why the parties are so divided and why the public is so split.

Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.

He spoke clearly and slowly, well knowing that some among the natives would understand him.

Why he did that, instead of walking around on the shore, Jimmy Rabbit couldn't understand.

"Now I have a larger place for you," the boy said, speaking just as though Squinty could understand him.

She knew that she alone of all human beings was gifted with the power to understand and fully sympathize with him.

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When To Use

What are other ways to say understand?

To understand is to be fully aware not only of the meaning of something but also of its implications: I could comprehend all he said, but did not understand that he was joking. To know is to be aware of something as a fact or truth: He knows the basic facts of the subject. I know that he agrees with me. To comprehend is to know something thoroughly and to perceive its relationships to certain other ideas, facts, etc. 

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On this page you'll find 166 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to understand, such as: accept, discern, explain, fathom, figure out, and find out.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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