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past tense of understand
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1
to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information
- as I understand it, this is the best plan that we have
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2
to have a practical understanding of
- I think I understand how an engine works now
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- appreciated,
- apprehended,
- cognized,
- fathomed,
- followed,
- kenned
- [chiefly Scottish],
- perceived,
- savvied
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3
to have a clear idea of
- after a few weeks in Russia I began to understand the language a little bit
Synonyms for understood
- appreciated,
- apprehended,
- assimilated,
- beheld,
- caught,
- caught on (to),
- cognized,
- compassed,
- comprehended,
- conceived,
- cottoned (to or on to),
- deciphered,
- decoded,
- discerned,
- dug,
- got,
- grasped,
- grokked,
- intuited,
- knew,
- made,
- made out,
- perceived,
- recognized,
- registered,
- savvied,
- saw,
- seized,
- sensed,
- tumbled (to),
- twigged
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The first known use of understood was in 1605
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