verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
fully
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To fully comprehend space we need stereoscopic touch, hearing and vision.
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I wonder if there -, %, as some moment when she fully comprehended and appreciated him?
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Rivalry between them is unnecessary and tends to disappear once each fully comprehends the other's role.
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Fully comprehending the imminent danger, Warren sent to General Meade for a division.
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If not, does it fully comprehend the awful consequences?
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And he comprehended fully how great is the benevolence of the boundlessly compassionate Kuan Yin.
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They learn not to take things on trust, but to make sure they fully comprehend in order to make their own assessments.
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A proper engineering drawing can not be thus fudged; like Wolf, the draughtsman must fully comprehend what he is drawing.
how
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We don't really comprehend how rigorous the training in the guild system was.
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But if I know not even the tail of this whale, how comprehend his face, when face he has none?
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It may be hard to comprehend how much the gift of books means for my country.
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Do you comprehend how happy I am, am determined to be?
why
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I find that people can not comprehend why it will not go in the forthcoming legislation.
■ NOUN
people
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But we do not yet fully understand how people comprehend such sentences.
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I find that people can not comprehend why it will not go in the forthcoming legislation.
■ VERB
fail
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She was so poorly versed in the emotions that she failed to comprehend its true nature.
try
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One way we tried to comprehend the Holocaust was by developing certain misapprehensions about it.
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I try to comprehend my son for an instant as a compilation of parts.
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Swarm logic tries to comprehend the out-of-kilter, to measure the erratic, and to time the unpredictable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Even scientists do not comprehend these phenomena.
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God cannot truly be seen or comprehended by the human mind.
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Take the time to read, comprehend , and evaluate the report.
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The significance of the disappearance of the buffalo and the passenger pigeon was not fully comprehended until much later.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A child can not comprehend the subtle difference between illegal segregation in the South and racial imbalance in the North.
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A disposition to incremental change can deflect one from considering or even comprehending wider and more fundamental problems.
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In industry I found the status system much more difficult to comprehend .
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People did not comprehend what was happening, and there was genuine confusion over how to respond.
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The chink in this otherwise disarming argument is that Nature exists only to the extent that we comprehend it.
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The dream is easy to describe, difficult to comprehend .
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The pain of this incomplete ending of a relationship is impossible to comprehend .