unhand
Americanverb (used with object)
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unhands,
present (3rd person singular)
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unhanded,
past participle, past
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unhanding
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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unhandsimple
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unhandssimple
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have unhandedperfect
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has unhandedperfect
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am unhandingprogressive
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are unhandingprogressive
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is unhandingprogressive
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have been unhandingperfect progressive
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has been unhandingperfect progressive
Past
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unhandedsimple
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had unhandedperfect
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was unhandingprogressive
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were unhandingprogressive
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had been unhandingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of unhand
Example Sentences
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They stage a melodrama in the lobby in which the business of "unhand that woman" and "the viper beats my mother" is used with proper gusto.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Dog, unhand our royal charger. We are the Empress Jadis.”
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
The New Woman will scarcely feel the seat of power warm beneath her before giving to the assassin's "unhand me, villain!" the authority of law.
From A Cynic Looks at Life by E. (Emanuel) Haldeman-Julius
His attendants laid hands on me, but he revived and bade them unhand me and bring me courteously to the palace.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by John Payne
Alive, well, safe!" roared back the minstrel; "unhand me!
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Theo immediately unhands me, putting his palms in the air to show he has no intention of touching me again and looking worried and baffled at once.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
When the habit of books becomes the habit of a man he unhands himself at will from space and time; he finds the universe is his universe.
From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee
Gower unhands her, and, lifting one side of his would-be blind, regards her fixedly.
From The Hoyden by Duchess
Conversely, humanities lag at Rochester, and Board Chairman Wilson has personally unhanded $1,000,000 for improvement.
From Time Magazine Archive
The program's sponsor, Charles Revson, president of Revlon Products Corp., had more than the occasion to be choked up about as he unhanded the Big Check.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said I not that the gods, as well as mankind, had unhanded themselves from this Pierre?
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
"Had enough, Jacob?" he asked just as gently as he had unhanded himself from me.
From The Heart's Kingdom by Maria Thompson Daviess
Thereafter the manager appeared to realize the futility of resistance, and was unhanded on his undertaking to sit quiet, which he did with the exception of one speech to those behind.
From Stingaree by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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