Grasp vs Undernim - What's the difference?
grasp | undernim |
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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To seize; catch; grasp.
To perceive; understand.
To blame; reprove; rebuke; reprimand; reprehend.
*2004 , Anonymous, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville :
As an acronym grasp
is (software|object-oriented design).As a verb undernim is
to seize; catch; grasp.grasp
English
(wikipedia grasp)Verb
(en verb)- I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity .
Derived terms
* grasp the nettleNoun
(en noun)undernim
English
Verb
- Alas! that it is great slander to our faith and to our law, when folk that be without law shall reprove us and undernim us of our sins, [...]