comprehense

present singular third person comprehenses · participle present comprehensing · participle past comprehensed · past comprehensed

1. nonstandardraretransitivechiefly non-native speakers' EnglishTo comprehend.

   Whether what is to be healed in a person or a nation, the healing process requires personal courage, and a willingness to face things not always easy to comprehense.

   1998 September 7, Bayon108, “THE CAMBODIAN SHOULD SHOW RESTRAINT(2/2 with POLITICAL COURAGE)”, in soc.culture.cambodia (Usenet)

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   They put me on Li a few years before that too, but I didn't have any understanding and I wasn't well enough to comprehense anything eithier;^([sic]) […] I have many more serious aspects on trying to survive with this roller-coaster life that people around me can't comprehense and they think I'm having good time like playing in a fun-fair park.

   2000 April 15, tw, “How Does Lithium Work?”, in soc.support.depression.manic (Usenet)

   if we are competing to see who can have a longer list of china's problems, you will be far far behind, since some problems you would not be able to comprehense unless you are chinese who lived there before.

   2003 October 23, anakin, “Chinese Democracy”, in soc.culture.china (Usenet)