hand over

Speech parts

1. hand over - Noun

2. hand over - Verb

Meaning

to surrender someone or something to another

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

hand-over

Synonyms

deliver render turn in fork out fork over fork up dole hand present provide give release mete intrust supply
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Antonyms

welsh levant take attack keep bear
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Hypernyms

hand give reach pass pass on turn over

Hyponyms

bail give away

Examples

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. Ray Bradbury

I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow. R. S. Thomas

I fear I must agree," Magnus murmured. He pressed a hand over his heart and his new peacock-blue waistcoast. "I strive to find some respect in my heart for you, but alas! It seems an impossible quest. Cassandra Clare

He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. "You're going to make a great mother, you know,” he says. He kisses me one last time and goes back to Finnick. Suzanne Collins

We must make, if we can, an enduring peace. That is why I feel so strongly regarding the proposal to hand over two million Germans to the Poles, who are an inferior people so far as concerns the experience and capacity for government. We do not want to create another Alsace-Lorraine. David Lloyd George

The deckhands are in control, and the base have the upper hand over the noble. Theognis of Megara

Close letter words and terms

hand organ hand out hand out to hand over control hand over fist hand over hand