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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. 

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Which is like, totally unfair as she had to go to Italy to rescue her vampire boyfriend from a load of other vampires, and DAD YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND.

From The Guardian • Nov. 17, 2012

"UNDERSTAND THE BACKDROP" "The defendants won't say 'We did it because of Katrina,' but rather, 'Understand the backdrop of what was occurring in those days,'" said New Orleans lawyer and former U.S.

From Reuters • Jul. 15, 2011

And well it stamps our Human Race, And hence the gift TO UNDERSTAND, When in the musing heart we trace Whate'er we fashion with the hand.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various

You UNDERSTAND, the wine from your house in Jager Street, for which I arranged the coat-of-arms!

From Frederick the Great and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)




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