Definitions for comprehend

comprehend com·pre·hend

Spelling: [kom-pri-hend]
IPA: /ˌkɒm prɪˈhɛnd/

Comprehend is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 551 anagrams from letters in comprehend (cdeehmnopr).

Definitions for comprehend

verb (used with object)

  1. to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive:
  2. to take in or embrace; include; comprise:

Origin of comprehend

1350-1400; Middle English comprehenden Latin comprehendere, equivalent to com- com- + prehendere to grasp; see prehensile

Examples for comprehend

Their stories were told again and again in an attempt to assimilate the tragedy, to comprehend the incomprehensible.

Any thing like a general argument Mr. Hardcastle could not comprehend.

But we must not expect with our finite mind to comprehend the infinite God.

She did not comprehend that Martin definitely did not want it changed.

She did not seem to hear at first, nor to comprehend when she went back over his words.

White rappers are always difficult to comprehend, difficult to deal with.

It is very difficult to sit by helplessly while a friend is imprisoned for a crime that is too implausible to comprehend.

But her new theory of acceptance did not comprehend everything.

I could not comprehend the fact that Kristen and Lorne and Bill and all these people are singing “Happy Birthday” to me.

Indeed, when you read it, you comprehend how, almost inevitably, his oratorical gifts eclipsed his skill as a writer.

Word Value for comprehend
Scrable

20

Words with friends

23

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