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Meanings of understand for in English

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Usage of understand for in English
1
I can't hardly understand for listening to the sound of them words.
Wench: a novel
2
She didn't dare to understand for fear it might be a mistake.
The Seventh Noon
3
Can you understand for one moment how strange this seems to me?
The California Birthday Book / Prose and Poetical Selections fro...
4
Jondalar gaped at her, didn't understand for a moment, then remembered.
The Mammoth Hunters
5
We could understand for ourselves part of what the Master meant.
The Call of the Twentieth Century, an Address to Young Men
6
And I can't understand for a moment where all the blood came from.
Unravel Me
7
No one can tell thee, child, if thee can not understand for thyself.
The Redemption of David Corson
8
Features of savage life difficult to understand for the European.
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
9
I understand for the first time how you love Vera.
The Precipice
10
Surely you, Pastor, and the Captain can understand for yourselves.
Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger
11
She must understand for sure that the bravest man in the parish had chosen her.
The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature
12
But wait till you go to the Château and then you will understand for yourself.
The Justice of the King
13
It was there where I began to understand for myself what doing more looked like.
Ebony
14
I must understand for myself how things are going.
Donal Grant
15
I didn't understand for a minute, then I whispered:
Us and the Bottle Man
16
Ginger seemed to understand for the first time that this was a time to be serious.
Dead until dark
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Understand for through the time
Understand for across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common