What does "fathomed" mean?

simple past and past participle of fathom

What is a synonym for "fathomed"?

Common synonyms include: penetrate, absorb, answer, appraise, appreciate, apprehend.

Fathomed

verb

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Verb

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simple past and past participle of fathom form-of, participle, past

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penetrate absorb answer appraise appreciate apprehend

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"Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side."

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