Experience and Understand

Experience

Experience verb - To come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it.

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Understand and experience are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Understand" instead a verb "Experience".

Nearby Words: expert, experienced, experiment, experiential, experiencing

Understand verb - To form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information.

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Experience and understand are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Experience" instead a verb "Understand".

love	experience love	understand love
emotion	experience emotion	understand emotion
power	experience power	understand power
life	experience life	understand life
Other words: death, time, way, world, game, story, pain, feelings, emotions.

Baffled by it, he sincerely tries to understand and experience it, but as he socializes and meets new people, Dexter finds out that maintaining any kind of relationship can have its ups and downs.

Source: Fanfic Recs / Dexter's Laboratory
The actual Big Bad in the series, his little sister Runa, went through a similar experience but didn't understand it and freaked out, thinking their mother hated her.

Source: First Episode Resurrection
When Yume asks the older girls about love, Mihato says she looks at her brother to understand love, Miyu indicates she doesnt know and Natose admits to having no experience.

Source: Visual Novel / They Are My Noble Masters

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