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Learn to pronounce com·pre·hend

/ˌkämprəˈhend/
verb
  1. grasp mentally; understand.
    "he couldn't comprehend her reasons for marrying Lovat"
    synonyms: understand, grasp, take in, see, apprehend, follow, make sense of, fathom, make out, puzzle out, get to the bottom of, penetrate, realize, perceive, discern, divine, unravel, decipher, interpret, piece together, work out, figure out, make head or tail of, get one's head around, wrap one's mind around, take on board, get a fix on, get the hang of, get the drift of, catch onto, latch onto, tumble to, crack, dig, get, see the light, get the picture, twig, suss out, suss, savvy
  2. include, comprise, or encompass.
    "a divine order comprehending all men"
    synonyms: comprise, include, take in, encompass, embrace, involve, contain, cover

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1. to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
From Middle English comprehenden, from Latin comprehendere (“to grasp”), from the prefix com- + prehendere (“to seize”). Doublet of comprend.
to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
COMPREHEND meaning: to understand (something, such as a difficult or complex subject) often used in negative statements.
To comprehend something is to understand it, like when you have to read a difficult passage more than once in order to comprehend it.
to understand something that is complicated or difficult SYN understand, grasp, → comprehension She cannot comprehend the extent of the disaster.