Word Finder - handled

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To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).

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To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.

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To manage, use, or wield with the hands.

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To manage, control, or direct.

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To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).

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she handled the news with grace, the Persians handled the French ambassador shamefully

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To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.

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To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.

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a merchant handles a variety of goods, or a large stock

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To be concerned with; to be an expert in.

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To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).

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I can't handle this hot weather.

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To use the hands.

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To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm; to commit handball.

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To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).

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the car handles well

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Having a specified number or kind of handles.

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a two-handled drinking cup

He handled the baby as if it were made of crystal.

Evelyn handled it all with cheerfulness while Kiera stressed over the shade of flowers clashing with the décor, and the cake containing nuts, which Romas was allergic to.

Especially, I want to succeed spectacularly with the type of case we handled today.

Her lean body handled the strenuous task easily.

The parts are easy of transport and can be handled without difficulty through narrow doorways and in confined situations.

I've yet to meet someone who couldn't be handled, given the right approach.

I handled the checkbook from the very first.

I handled things poorly.

Occasionally Howard would ask her questions, but mostly he and Connie handled the plans by themselves.

He handled weapons as if they were extensions of his body, never dropping them or misplacing a strike.

He never could have handled this scene.

It was probably safe to say the rest of his life depended heavily on how he handled things from this point on.

Dean managed the luggage in three trips from their rental car while Cynthia and Fred handled the paper work and showed the women their quarters.

Though he harbored no regrets in declining her invitation to sex, he knew he could and should have handled so obviously unstable a person in such a mental state far better than he did.

I have it handled.

He comically handled the situation with a joke.

In all places where finished goods are handled, or manufactured goods are made, cranes of various forms are in universal use.

They decide how the site will operate, how you sign up and how updates are handled.

In October of 2009, a Daily News Article reported that Lance Armstrong used his Twitter account to dismiss reports that French authorities are investigating syringes handled by his Tour de France cycling team.

The position meter just mentioned is common to all the cords on one position and records all completed calls handled at the position.

Italy, handled and rehandled, settled and resettled, upon each of these occasions, changed masters without caring or knowing what befell the principals in any one of the disputes.

The Neapolitan troops at first occupied Rome, but, being badly handled by their leader, the Austrian general, Mack, they were soon scattered in flight; and the Republican troops under General The Championnet, after crushing the stubborn resistance Parthenoof the lazzaroni, made their way into Naples and paean proclaimed the Parthenopaean Republic (January 23, Republic. 1799).

The French, poorly handled by Schrer and Srurier, were everywhere beaten, especially at Magnano (April 5) and Cassano (April 27).

Even in land-warfare he cast aside the weapons of his forefathers; but he soon learned to handle the weapons of his new land with greater prowess than they had ever been handled before.

Although the administration of the above-mentioned acts of parliament has had a beneficial effect upon the safety of the public, and has enabled an enormous volume of traffic Safety to be handled with celerity, punctuality and absence Y?

From the flourishing days of the later monarchy and onwards, different writers handled the early history of their land from different standpoints.

A development of ideals and a growth of spirituality can be traced which render the biblical writings with their series of prophecies a unique 1 This is philosophically handled by the Arabian historian Ibn Khaldun, whose Prolegomena is well worthy of attention; see De Slane, Not.

The naïve impression that each period of history was handled by some more or less contemporary authority is not confirmed by a criticism which confines itself strictly to the literary evidence.

Asia Minor and the West developed the strict ecclesiastical forms by means of which the church closed her lines against heathenism, and especially against heresy; in Alexandria Christian ideas were handled in a free and speculative fashion and worked out with the help of Greek philosophy.

Spiders of various families will, when alarmed, lie absolutely still with legs tucked up and allow themselves to be pushed and rolled, and handled in various ways without betraying that they are alive by the slightest movement.

Where, as in private herbaria, the specimens are not liable to be handled with great frequency, a stitch here and there round the stem, tied at the back of the sheet, or slips of paper passed over the stem through two slits in the sheet and attached with gum to its back, or simply strips of gummed paper laid across the stem, may be resorted to.

The use of corrosive sublimate is not, however, recommended, as it forms on drying a fine powder which when the plants are handled will rub off and, being carried into the air, may prove injurious to workers.

At length in the afternoon they suddenly fell upon Dupont's isolated division at Albeck, which was completely surprised and severely handled.

This project was persisted with, until on the 18th Murat was himself attacked and severely handled (action of Tarutino or Vinkovo).

Then hearing that the Austrians had counter-marched and were again moving towards Dresden, he hastened back there, concentrated as many men as could conveniently be handled, and advanced beyond Pirna and KOnigstein to meet him.

About noon the 2nd of February Napoleon attacked them, but the weather was terrible, and the ground so heavy that his favourite artillery, the mainstay of his whole system of warfare, was useless and in the drifts of snow which at intervals swept across the field, the columns lost their direction and many were severely handled by the Cossacks.

The more numerous vessels of the Turkish service are so small, so inadequately equipped and so poorly handled, that they are used for either passenger or freight transport only by those who cannot secure the services of the British steamers.

Scott restored the present cathedral, 1866-1875, after it had been burned in the time of Owen Glendower, destroyed in 1211, and, in 1102 and 1212, severely handled.

The rebels now handled their bows in a menacing fashion, but at the critical moment the young king with great presence of mind and courage spurred his horse into the open, crying, "Sirs, will you shoot your king?

On the 6th of November he was severely handled and his guns and wagons captured at Bothaville.

This is expensive, but is made necessary by the small amount of material to be handled at any given point.

The conditions under Accidents which explosives may be stored, handled and used are from carefully formulated in the mining laws of most states, fro Explosives.

During the transplanting, preferably done on cloudy days or during light rains, the plants must be handled very carefully; machines are now available which can set out and water plants over from two to six acres in a working day.

By whichever way treated, the tobaccoleaf after curing is brittle and cannot be handled without crumbling to powder.

Although deficient in technical training, he handled with great skill the difficult problems which were presented by the Civil War.

The chief characteristic of the day's fighting was the terrible effectiveness of the Prussian artillery, which was handled in masses and not, as on the French side, by batteries.

In it the union between the finite self-consciousness and the infinite ego or God is handled in an almost mystical manner.

In the meanwhile the first line of Marlborough's infantry had crossed lower down, and the first line of cavalry, following them across, had been somewhat severely handled by Tallard's cavalry.

The three infantry brigades of his second line had not been engaged,2 and as usual the last closed reserve, resolutely handled, carried the day.

The Aegyptus sive de providentia is an allegory in which the good Osiris and the evil Typhon, who represent Aurelian and the Goth Gainas (ministers under Arcadius), strive for mastery; and the question of the divine permission of evil is handled.