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View synonyms for hands
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
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