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understand
verb
    1. To grasp the meaning of (a subject, words, a person, a language, etc)
      Example: I've never understood trigonometry
      Example: I could understand him when he spoke more slowly
      Example: Do you understand Polish?
      Thesaurus: comprehend, grasp, learn, follow, get it.
    2. To make out the significance, cause, etc of something.
      Example: I don't understand what all the fuss is about
      Thesaurus: comprehend, conceive, get it, get the message, realize, perceive, see, recognize, take in.
    3. To have sympathetic awareness of someone or something.
      Example: I fully understand your point of view
    4. To infer from the available information.
      Example: He got the sack? I understood that he'd resigned
    5. To mentally put in (a word or words)to be there.
      Example: A relative pronoun is understood
Idiom: understand each other (understand one another)
    To know and accept each other's opinions, feelings, etc.
    To agree.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon.



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