n.
1) to comprehend, grasp, take in a ~
2) to accept a ~
3) an awkward; crisis, emergency; critical; delicate; desperate; embarrassing; explosive; fluid; hopeless, no-win ( colloq. ); intolerable; life-and-death; stable; tricky; unpleasant ~
4) the housing; international, world; political ~
5) ( misc. ) to take stock of the ~
USAGE NOTE: Some purists prefer the simple words crisis and emergency to phrases such as crisis ~ and emergency ~ .