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View definitions for understand

understand

verb as in sympathetically accept

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Example Sentences

The researchers stress the importance of further studies, especially randomised controlled clinical trials, to better understand the mechanisms behind the findings.

Knowing where the mRNA begins formation on the DNA strand is a significant part of understanding how genes are expressed.

Consumers often take part in these technologies without fully understanding the implications.

To get a better sense of how tariffs can affect spending choices, it's important to understand how tariffs work.

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The BBC understands the regulator will say that any bonuses paid should be borne by owners and lenders to the company rather than paid by customers.

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When To Use

What are other ways to say understand?

To understand is to be fully aware not only of the meaning of something but also of its implications: I could comprehend all he said, but did not understand that he was joking. To know is to be aware of something as a fact or truth: He knows the basic facts of the subject. I know that he agrees with me. To comprehend is to know something thoroughly and to perceive its relationships to certain other ideas, facts, etc. 

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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