understand
Usage
Example Sentences
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“You can go anywhere in the house, and anywhere out toward the road. But there’s a condition your father insisted on. You don’t go near the top of the hill. D’you understand, lad?”
From Literature
“Perhaps you can understand my melancholy,” I say, placing my suitcase where he’ll be certain to trip over it.
From Literature
Kampnich, in particular, has helped the research team understand the island's ecology and terrain.
From Science Daily
When it lapses, it will mark the first time that American and Russian nuclear forces aren’t constrained by an arms-control agreement in over half a century unless the two sides fashion a new understanding.
The change will not come into effect immediately but Beijing is understood to have committed to unilateral visa-free entry for UK citizens, with a start date to be confirmed.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
