understood
verb
simple past tense and past participle of understand.
half-understood
-
a word derived from
understood.
Example Sentences
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“These exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves,” he wrote, “and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us.”
From Washington Post ● May 20, 2022
“The Christmas Pig” explores a deep attachment to an old object, with all its half-understood associations and meanings, at a time when we’re supposed to be in thrall to acquiring the new.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2021
Even I had moments, reading his account, where I thought I half-understood something of what is involved in, say, sequencing the genome.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2020
They’re driven by a half-understood longing for products that can no longer fulfill their bottomless hunger.
From The Verge ● Dec. 5, 2018
The girl couldn’t talk, couldn’t communicate at all except in the inadequate sign language she had invented—a language even her mother only half-understood.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
