Grasp vs Ponder - What's the difference?
grasp | ponder |
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 wonder, to think of deeply.
To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly; to chew over, to mull over.
* Bible, Proverbs iv. 26
(obsolete) To weigh.
As verbs the difference between grasp and ponder
is that grasp is to grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand while ponder is to wonder, to think of deeply.As a noun grasp
is grip.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)ponder
English
Verb
(en verb)- I have spent days pondering the meaning of life.
- Ponder the path of thy feet.