Comprehend



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• v. 理解, 包括
• ［英］ v. 理解, 包括 ( understand sth fully)
• ［类］ garbled : comprehend / obscured : recognize ( 歪曲的不易理解 / ? 牟灰兹鲜? 反义词: hermetic ( 深奥的)
• ［记］ com ( 全部) +prehend ( 抓住) -> 全部抓住 -> 包括, 理解

Webster Collegiate

transitive verb

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French comprendre, comprehendre, from Latin comprehendere, from com- + prehendere to grasp — more at get
• Date: 14th century
• 1. to grasp the nature, significance, or meaning of <unable to comprehend what has happened
• 2. to contain or hold within a total scope, significance, or amount <philosophy's scope comprehends the truth of everything which man may understand — H. O. Taylor
• 3. to include by construction or implication <does not prudence comprehend all the virtues? — Thomas B. Silver
• Synonyms: see understand, include
• ? comprehendible adjective

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