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hands
1/ hændz /
plural noun
- power or keeping
your welfare is in his hands
- Also calledhandling soccer the infringement of touching the ball with any part of the hand or arm
- change handsto pass from the possession of one person or group to another
- clean handsfreedom from guilt
- hands downwithout effort; easily
- hands offdo not touch or interfere
- hands up!raise the hands above the level of the shoulders, an order usually given by an armed robber to a victim, etc
- have one's hands full
- to be completely occupied
- to be beset with problems
- have one's hands tiedto be wholly unable to act
- in good handsin protective care
- join handsSee join
- lay hands on or lay hands upon
- to seize or get possession of
- to beat up; assault
- to find
I just can't lay my hands on it anywhere
- Christianity to confirm or ordain by the imposition of hands
- off one's handsfor which one is no longer responsible
- on one's hands
- for which one is responsible
I've got too much on my hands to help
- to spare
time on my hands
- out of one's handsno longer one's responsibility
- throw up one's handsto give up in despair
- wash one's hands ofto have nothing more to do with
Hands
2/ hænz /
noun
- HandsTerence David1941MBritishTHEATRE: theatre director Terence David, known as Terry. born 1941, British theatre director: chief executive and artistic director (1986–91) of the Royal Shakespeare Company
Example Sentences
“We all shook hands and my client told me to leave,” he said.
My body used for his hard pleasure; a stone god gripping me in his hands.
An ace comedic turn that, in lesser hands, would come off as one-note.
Inevitably, the old visceral “hands-on” flying skills, no longer much employed by pilots, have atrophied like an unused limb.
Hands-down the best music video in years—and one of the best ever.
With a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.
She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.
He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.
He burst into a loud laugh, clapped his hands, and danced before the delighted babe.
Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.
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