diff --git a/doc/api/child_process.md b/doc/api/child_process.md
index 1a61e026c4077a..6bea59ebac3f12 100644
--- a/doc/api/child_process.md
+++ b/doc/api/child_process.md
@@ -611,8 +611,8 @@ the `SIGTERM` signal and does not exit, the parent process will still wait
 until the child process has exited.*
 
 If the process times out, or has a non-zero exit code, this method ***will***
-throw.  The [`Error`][] object will contain the entire result from
-[`child_process.spawnSync()`][]
+throw an [`Error`][] that will include the full result of the underlying
+[`child_process.spawnSync()`][].
 
 ### child_process.execSync(command[, options])
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