Conclude
Conclude verb - To form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information.
Usage example: concluded that only the murderer could possibly have known that information
Understand is a synonym for conclude in reason topic. In some cases you can use "Understand" instead a verb "Conclude", when it comes to topics like accept, interpretation, give credence to.
Understand
Understand verb - To form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information.
Usage example: as I understand it, this is the best plan that we have
Conclude is a synonym for understand in believe topic. You can use "Conclude" instead a verb "Understand", if it concerns topics such as think, reason, accept, interpretation.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- surmise and conclude
- surmise and understand
- draw and conclude
- draw and understand
- imagine and conclude
- imagine and understand
- conjecture and conclude
- conjecture and understand
- judge and conclude
- judge and understand
- reckon and conclude
- reckon and understand
- believe and conclude
- believe and understand
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The trio just walks away, incredibly confused about what just happened and conclude that they don't really understand humans.
Source: Webcomic / Sandra and Woo -
Why the hell they conclude that Sir Winston Churchill wouldn't understand their point, is not exactly explained.
Source: Film / The Imitation Game - A comedy trope where characters trying to understand or explain what a foreign word means ultimately conclude that the foreign word means... the foreign word.
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