Hand over and Save

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Hand over verb - To put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption.

Usage example: in response to a desperate plea, we handed over all our extra blankets and pillows to the homeless shelter

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Save is an antonym for hand over.

Save verb - To free from the penalties or consequences of sin.

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Hand over is an antonym for save.

Nearby Words: saving, saved, saver

However, he refuses to hand over his brother to be sodomized by some rednecks to save his own skin.

Source: Western Animation / Titan Maximum
He is manipulated into a position where the only way to save himself from the German secret police is to hand over another man first.

Source: Honor Before Reason / Live-Action TV
Of course, this is following the British government's decision forty years earlier to hand over 12 kids to an alien race in order to save their skins.

Source: I Did What I Had To Do / Live-Action TV

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