verb/kompɾenˈdeɾ/
to understand, to comprehend; to comprise; to include
“El guerrillero fue reclutado a la fuerza por las FARC -dijo- para cuidar del cristalizadero de la zona comprendida entre el río Cuembí, en la frontera entre Colombia y Ecuador, y el sitio llamado Bellavista, ubicado en una zona mayormente del territorio ecuatoriano.” — The guerrilla was forcibly recruited by the FARC, he said, to take care of the coke lab in the area included between the Cuembí River, on the border between Colombia and Ecuador, and the site called Bellavista, located in an area mostly from the Ecuadorian territory.
Synonyms: entender, percanzar, incluir
Inherited from Old Spanish, inherited from Latin comprendere, variant of comprehendere. Cognate with English comprehend.