0 past simple and past participle of comprehend
1 to understand something completely:
These differences in demography are more easily comprehended than the complex differences in society and culture.
It is doubtful whether he ever comprehended the profound changes occurring in the struggle for civil rights.
He comprehended the linkage of diplomacy and military capability.
Section 3 insinuates that the ballet can only be comprehended if approached crabwise, in a ruminative, yet exacting, account sensitive to temporal and spatial contingency.
The latter, he claimed, was so pervasive that it could not be comprehended apart from a comparison with its opposite number.
Mathematical constructivism regards provability as the touchstone for mathematical propositions because proofs are created and comprehended by the mind.
In the simple past, achievements and semelfactives are comprehended as a whole.
In contrast, children comprehended words on post-test regardless of whether they or the experimenter had spoken them during the book reading.
