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Meaning fathom meaning

What does fathom mean?

fathom

— verb (= penetrate) come to understand — verb (= sound) measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line — noun (mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore — noun a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth

Synonyms fathom synonyms

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fathom English » English

sound span fthm understand penetrate gauge plumb determine comprehend arm span six feet see probe measure mark grasp decipher bottom beautiful unweave untwine unsnarl unit of length unfathomable trace to fathom out test survey straighten out spell out sounding sort solve sober smooth out settle see through another’s thoughts see through resolve research report recondite recognize reading another’s thoughts ravel out puzzle over puzzle out profound process predict

Topics fathom topics

What do people use fathom to talk about?
States Big Distance

Deep, shallow

  • What words refer to a unit of depth?
    fathom
States Big

Measure

Conjugation fathom conjugation

How do you conjugate fathom?

fathom · verb

Examples fathom examples

How do I use fathom in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I can't fathom it.
I can't fathom what you said.

Movie subtitles

Who can solve the riddle of life and death or fathom the dark secrets hidden from the light of day?
Some day, I think I. Ten fathom.
Six fathom.
Five fathom.
Three-and-a-half fathom.
Yes, in 400 fathom.
It dropped another fathom!
Well, I shall never be able to fathom the Oriental mind.
Utterly bewildered, I tried to fathom what series of events could conceivably have led to this not-very-amusing irony.
What a temptation. Can you fathom it, though?
Full fathom seven!
Full fathom five!
Who can fathom the depths of another man's heart?
That's what I can't fathom.
Can you fathom it?
You can't even fathom what it means to love someone! - But you do, right?
And yet, to fathom your future life.
Depth, half a fathom.
Betty, honey, I simply cannot fathom your lack of cooperation.
Things I couldn't even fathom for myself.
I can't fathom it.
Your smile is hard to fathom.
We're in a four-fathom channel.
He surely has tactics that you cannot fathom.
That for their souls, another of his fathom they have not to lead their business.
Our ship's chronometers registered a matter of only a few seconds. Therefore we were displaced through space in some manner which I am unable to fathom.
Perhaps he can fathom you.
You must fathom the new laws that govern this decay and adjust yourself to them.
Similarly we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens.
I can't yet quite fathom what she meant.
Not one of you can possibly fathom how great a burden will be carried by the man destined to be his successor, his heir?.

News and current affairs

While a distraught world is still trying to fathom the consequences of this global crash and to mitigate its impact, the call of the next black swan can already be heard: the global climate disaster.
It is still difficult to fathom why the No vote attracted so much support, even given widespread apathy.
The twenty-first century will be different in ways that we cannot fathom today.
Why Putin's advisors and public-relations managers encourage him to make these banal triumphalist announcements is difficult to fathom unless one comprehends the sense of grievance that almost all Russians feel at the loss of Great Power status.
European politicians' overwhelming opposition to supplying Ukraine with defensive arms is difficult to fathom.
Because Burma's generals say almost nothing in public, it is difficult to fathom why they allowed elections that elevated Thein Sein to power, or to explain their willingness to embrace dialogue with the long-suppressed opposition.
Few of us in the developed world can fathom aggregate-output contractions on the scale that crisis-torn Asia suffered in 1998, let alone muster the political will to impose them on our economies.
The reasons behind this are not hard to fathom.
The event's popularity is not hard to fathom.
The reason is not hard to fathom.
It is, of course, difficult to make sense of someone who declares himself just like you and then acts in ways you can scarcely fathom.
Faced with the embarrassment of his pastor's views on race and on America, Obama did not go into a huddle with spin-doctors to fathom how he should deal with the problem.
But the adversary facing the NATO alliance today is much more difficult to grasp and to fathom than before, though its sources are terribly familiar.

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