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understand

[uhn-der-stand] / ˌʌn dərˈstænd /




Usage

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. 

Example Sentences

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Many buyers “do not have a full understanding of the home-buying and lending process,” lawyers wrote in their complaint.

From MarketWatch

Without these shared understandings, how can we expect to date, marry and create stable families?

From The Wall Street Journal

“We want the Americans to be here, we love them, and they’re turning their backs on us. And that is difficult for us to understand.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Say what you will about the Davosites, they are worldly types who understand regression to the mean.

From The Wall Street Journal

It is a highly engineered system whose behavior under stress is well understood.

From The Wall Street Journal