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get one's head around en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (in the negative, informal, transitive) To understand; fathom; solve.
    • How did you get this number? / I can't get my head 'round you 2002, Frou Frou, “Psychobabble”, in Detail:
    • Throughout this book I have been trying to get my head around my head. And now I am about to try to get my head around the very processes by which I have been trying to get my head around itself: I am going to think about thought. 2014, Raymond Tallis, The Kingdom of Infinite Space […] , Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 274:
    • When my mum did pass away I fell out with God because I couldn't get my head around why he'd taken away the one person that we needed in our lives, because dad was no good to us. 2009, Wahida Shaffi, Our Stories, Our Lives: Inspiring Muslim Women's Voices, →ISBN:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
gotten one's head around Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
getting one's head around Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
gets one's head around Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
got one's head around Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
got one's head around Tense=Past lexicographic

Synonyms

wrap one's head around