Fathom can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| fathom - measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line | ||
| fathom - come to understand | ||
Noun |
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| fathom - a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth | ||
| fathom - (mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore |
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| 1. | noun | I can't fathom what you said. | |
| 2. | noun | I can't begin to fathom how someone could believe that one race is superior to another. | |
| 3. | noun | How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things. | |
| 4. | noun | Good day, lords. In what way can I refine upon my adroitness in aural comprehension? It is genuinely arduous for me to fathom the parlance of the English, although my scribbling deftness is unerring. | |
| 5. | noun | I didn't fathom this happening. | |
| 6. | noun | I just can't fathom it. | |
| 7. | noun | I can't fathom why somebody would make something like that up. | |
| 8. | noun | I can't fathom it. | |
| 9. | noun | I can't fathom how Tom did that. | |
| 10. | noun | I absolutely cannot fathom why you bought that ridiculously expensive car. | |
| 11. | noun | The horror Yanni experienced is hard to fathom. | |
| 12. | noun | There is a body buried underneath the Sakura tree! This is something you should believe. Why? Can you really fathom how such wondrous flowers are blooming? I have been uneasy for the last two or three days because I really can't believe it. But now I finally understand. There is a body buried underneath the tree. That is something you can believe. |
| Sentence | |
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| noun | |
| I can't fathom what you said. | |
| I can't begin to fathom how someone could believe that one race is superior to another. | |
| How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things. | |
| Good day, lords. In what way can I refine upon my adroitness in aural comprehension? It is genuinely arduous for me to fathom the parlance of the English, although my scribbling deftness is unerring. | |
| I didn't fathom this happening. | |
| I just can't fathom it. | |
| I can't fathom why somebody would make something like that up. | |
| I can't fathom it. | |
| I can't fathom how Tom did that. | |
| I absolutely cannot fathom why you bought that ridiculously expensive car. | |
| The horror Yanni experienced is hard to fathom. | |
| There is a body buried underneath the Sakura tree! This is something you should believe. Why? Can you really fathom how such wondrous flowers are blooming? I have been uneasy for the last two or three days because I really can't believe it. But now I finally understand. There is a body buried underneath the tree. That is something you can believe. | |