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Definition of understand : 1. To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.
2. To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.
3. To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.
4. To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.
5. To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.
6. To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.
7. To stand under; to support.

Synonyms:

go steady, see, apprehend, run across, assure, tumble, construe, gain, extrapolate, translate, intuit, escort, clear, visit, envision, derive, cotton, witness, work out, seize, substantiate, catch on, sense, count on, believe in, interpret, agnise, control, reason, bring in, pick up, ascertain, possess, reckon, see through, make, represent, catch, generalize, generalise, appreciate, check, draw, record, rede, distinguish, grok, agnize, note, empathize, dig, concede, commiserate, get wind, conceive, look, misunderstand, view, say, behold, make out, go out, take in, realise, see the light, identify with, go through, image, visualise, take, take care, figure out, project, actualise, have a feel for something, savvy, sympathise, deduce, guess, transform, find, come across, decode, ken, picture, induce, earn, get word, imagine, consider, recognise, get a line, knowledge, examine, compass, penetrate, encounter, twig, explain, see to it, decide, be a great/firm believer in something, make sense of something, actualize, get, infer, date, find out, register, agree, make of, experience, follow, insure, deduct, ensure, see both sides, sympathize, be quick/slow on the uptake, watch, empathise, visualize, pull in, think, fall/fit into place, hear, render, cognize, suspect, scan, figure, determine, decipher, attend, fathom, fancy, show, run into, conjecture, regard, meet, get the idea

gather, trust, presume, hold, suppose, conclude, accept, judge, credit, affirm, maintain, assume, declare, assent, put faith in, surmise, take for granted, believe, profess, give faith, deem

discover, realize, absorb, glean, grasp, comprehend, study, digest, read, learn, master, assimilate

know, discern, recognize, perceive

Usage examples:

• Didn't you understand me? - "Queechy, Volume II", Elizabeth Wetherell.
• " I can understand all that," he said. - "The Eustace Diamonds", Anthony Trollope.
• Ruth, I do not understand. - "Norston's Rest", Ann S. Stephens.