understand

IPA: ʌndɝstˈænd

(transitive) (of words, statements, art, etc.) To know the meaning of.
(transitive) (of people) To know the intent, motives or nature of or (of events) to know the causes of or reasons for.
To believe, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.
(humorous, rare, obsolete outside circus, acrobatics) To stand underneath, to support.

Examples of "understand" in Sentences

And that is not the worst of it; they can't understand that _I can't understand_ them.
The only tactic that the GOP seems to understand is tossing out the false equivalency argument.
And with that in mind just in case you didn’t understand a word of the afore-mentioned, I will put it in a language you can understand
For God has so ordered the Prophecies, that in the latter days _the wise may understand, but the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand_, Dan. xii.
And the studies that we are doing are not only going to help us understand BPA, but they’re really going to help us understand endocrine-disrupting chemicals in general.
The term "atheist" is itself confusing, since it is often unclear whether those who use the label understand it to mean a rejection of every notion of God, or a rejection of theism.
And some pious neighbors, earnestly exhorting him to solemn concern and preparation, could not make him understand, we repeat with emphasis, _understand_ why there was occasion for any extraordinary disturbance of mind.
A person near expressed a fear that he did not understand what I said, being so weak and near death, but he quickly, and with great emphasis, exclaimed, '_I hear, I understand_' While I was praying his expression of countenance was most lovely.