HOW TO PRONOUNCE
understand
/ˌʌndɚˈstænd/
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What does understand mean?
verb
- To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
- To know the meaning of.
- To be thoroughly familiar with; to be able to undertake properly.
More meanings (6)
verb
- To comprehend a fact or principle; to regard or come to regard a belief as such.
- To know the intent, motives or character of; (of events) to know the causes of or reasons for.
- To believe or infer, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.
- To regard as present when not.
- (humorous, rare) To stand underneath, to support.
interjection
- Uh-huh, I see; a way to acknowledge something said by the other speaker.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌʌndɚˈstænd/
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In the pages of books
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By the time they arrived at the house Matthew was shrinking from the approaching revelation with an energy he did not understand.
Barbicane, pained at having to refuse him, gave him clearly to understand that the projectile could not possibly contain so many passengers.
More book examples (3)
But the king checked her and made her understand, with a polite phrase or two, that this was none of her business.
And we understand him well, How he comes o’er us with our wilder days, Not measuring what use we made of them.
Only when I pressed the cold muzzle of the revolver to his temple did he at last understand that resistance was vain.