Synonym: appreciate, comprehend, conceive, follow, grasp, know, realize. Antonym: misunderstand. Similar words: under, under way, founder, undergo, fall under, come under, undermine, undertake. Meaning: [‚ʌndə(r)'stænd] 
v. 1. know and comprehend the nature or meaning of 2. perceive (an idea or situation) mentally 3. make sense of a language 4. believe to be the case 5. be understanding of.
v. 1. know and comprehend the nature or meaning of 2. perceive (an idea or situation) mentally 3. make sense of a language 4. believe to be the case 5. be understanding of. 
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241. I can't understand why, but suddenly I had this feeling that something terrible was going to happen.
242. He abbreviated so much that it was hard to understand his article.
243. 'I understand that he was 62 when he died,' McLeish said.
244. To tell the truth, I didn't understand a word of what he was saying.
245. Definitions should not be more difficult to understand than the words they define.
246. I can quite understand your reluctance to talk about what happened to you.
247. Do you understand the system of classification used in ornithology?
248. She doesn't seem to understand the difference between truth and falsehood.
249. I understand the rent is fixed at £750 a month.
250. "Please understand this," she began, a tremble in her voice.
251. I couldn't read or understand a word of Yiddish, so I asked him to translate.
252. The best way to understand this book is to start, perversely, at the end.
253. In educating our children, we should help them to understand things, not to pump things in.
254. 'Oh, I understand,' he said with a knowing smile .
255. It is hard for the able-bodied to understand the difficulties that disabled people encounter in their daily lives.
256. "I can understand how you feel," Desmond said with great reasonableness.
257. You must understand the elements of mathematics before we can proceed further.
258. I couldn't understand what the man was saying; he was as drunk as a lord.
259. Getting computers to understand human language is not a trivial problem.
260. It's difficult to understand what causes a man to rape.
261. It is hard for a sentient person to understand how any parents could treat their child so badly.
262. 'I don't understand,' he said,(sentencedict.com) with an expression of complete surprise .
263. She was too far gone to understand anything we said to her.
264. Art has real meaning when it helps people to understand themselves.
265. We must contextualize the problem before we can understand its origin.
266. As I understand it, you came round the corner by the cricket field and there was the man in the road.
267. His family could not understand how this quiet, well-adjusted man could have been driven to this terrible deed.
268. They couldn't understand it at the time[Sentence dictionary], and nor could we.
269. In order to understand this tragedy,our teacher asked us to role-play.
270. We were given to understand that the accommodation was free.
More similar words: under, under way, founder, undergo, fall under, come under, undermine, undertake, underlying, under control, first and foremost, undergraduate, wander, the first person, gender, render, tender, stand, commander, offender, defender, reminder, stand by, stand for, stand out, stand up, stance, wanderlust, distant, instant.