handed

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhændɪd/
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Adjective

handed (not comparable)

  1. (in combination) Having a certain kind or number of hands.
  2. (in combination) Having a peculiar or characteristic hand or way of treating others.
    • c. 1609, Shakespeare, Cymbeline, III-ii:
      As poisonous tongued as handed
  3. (obsolete) With hands joined; hand in hand.
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV.:
      Into their inmost bower, / Handed they went.

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Verb

handed

  1. simple past tense and past participle of hand

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