comprehend

I saw a few pictures in there that looked pretty but couldn’t comprehend what I was reading.

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

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.

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

Few can comprehend the anguish a president endures, even in times of peace, and especially in times of war.

"I comprehend you," said she, with an air of some perplexity.

They practiced what he had preached to a mightier race, practiced it with a thoroughness beyond the kind of man to comprehend.

A letter from Heriot informed me that the affair between Edbury and me was settled: he could not comprehend how.

I begin now to comprehend your disdain of customs which impose chains so idly galling on the liberty of our sex.

That she does not wait to comprehend the Infinite before she can love.