understand
Usage
Example Sentences
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And my mother was great at making our teenage friends feel understood, with warmth and empathy.
“No one. Sorry, your honor, no one has helped me at all,” said McClelland, standing in a court proceeding she said repeatedly she did not understand.
From Los Angeles Times
It is alive, it exists, you know people who are gallant, have witnessed gallantry and understand at this point that it is deeply countercultural.
“Everybody wants peace,” he added, then said slowly, as if hoping Americans would understand: “But a just peace.”
Joe and Kate did not initially understand what the jury's verdict meant – and have now spent more than three decades campaigning for the abolition of not proven.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
