Grasp vs Hend - What's the difference?
grasp | hend |
To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
(senseid)To understand.
Grip.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
(senseid)Understanding.
That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.
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(obsolete) To take hold of; to grasp, hold.
* 1885', Presently the cloud opened and behold, within it was that Jinni '''hending in hand a drawn sword, while his eyes were shooting fire sparks of rage. — Sir Richard Burton, ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , vol. 1
As verbs the difference between grasp and hend
is that grasp is to grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand while hend is (obsolete) to take hold of; to grasp, hold.As a noun grasp
is grip.grasp
English
(wikipedia grasp)Verb
(en verb)- I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity .