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comprehended

comprehended is the simple past and past participle of comprehend.

Adjective

comprehended (not comparable)

  1. Understood.
  2. Included; comprised; contained.

Meaning of comprehend

Verb

comprehend (third-person singular simple present comprehends, present participle comprehending, simple past and past participle comprehended)

  1. (transitive) To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly; to plumb.
    • I just can't comprehend how someone could be a butcher and vegetarian at the same time.
    Synonyms:
    see
  2. (archaic) To include, comprise; to contain.
    • And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Words formed from comprehended

Words that rhyme with comprehended

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Questions about comprehended

What does comprehended mean?
Comprehended means understood.
What is comprehended the simple past and past participle of?
Comprehended is the simple past and past participle of comprehend.
What part of speech is comprehended?
Comprehended is an adjective.

Words near comprehended in the dictionary

  1. comprecations
  2. compreg
  3. compregs
  4. comprehend
  5. comprehendable
  6. comprehended
  7. comprehendedly
  8. comprehender
  9. comprehenders
  10. comprehendest
  11. comprehendeth

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