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Comprehend vs Familiarize - What's the difference?

comprehend | familiarize |

As verbs the difference between comprehend and familiarize

is that comprehend is while familiarize is to make, or become familiar with something or someone.

comprehend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.1:
    • And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […].
  • * 1776 , (Edward Gibbon), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Penguin 2009, p. 9:
    • In the second century of the Christian Æra, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.
  • To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly.

    • Related terms

    * comprehensibility * comprehensible * comprehension * comprehensive * comprehensiveness * comprise ----

    familiarize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * familiarise (non-Oxford British spelling)

    Verb

    (familiariz)
  • To make, or become familiar with something or someone.

    • Related terms

    * familiarization ----