to make one's self understood

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to make one's self understood - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Understand \Un`der*stand"\ ([u^]n`d[~e]r*st[a^]nd"), v. t. [imp.
     & p. p. Understood ([u^]n`d[~e]r*st[oo^]d"), and Archaic
     Understanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Understanding.] [OE.
     understanden, AS. understandan, literally, to stand under;
     cf. AS. forstandan to understand, G. verstehen. The
     development of sense is not clear. See Under, and Stand.]
     1. To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the
        meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to
        comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in
        Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the
        court understands the advocate or his argument; to
        understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a
        wink.
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              Speaketh [i. e., speak thou] so plain at this time,
              I you pray,
              That we may understande what ye say.  --Chaucer.
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              I understand not what you mean by this. --Shak.
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              Understood not all was but a show.    --Milton.
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              A tongue not understanded of the people. --Bk. of
                                                    Com. Prayer.
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     2. To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be
        informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has
        passed the bill.
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     3. To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to
        mean; to interpret; to explain.
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              The most learned interpreters understood the words
              of sin, and not of Abel.              --Locke.
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     4. To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for
        granted; to assume.
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              War, then, war,
              Open or understood, must be resolved. --Milton.
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     5. To stand under; to support. [Jocose & R.] --Shak.
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     To give one to understand, to cause one to know.
  
     To make one's self understood, to make one's meaning clear.
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