Handed
Handed adjective - Having or involving the use of hands.
Passed and handed are semantically related in participle topic. In some cases you can use "Passed" instead a verb "Handed", when it comes to topics like transported, transmitted.
Passed
Handed and passed are semantically related in participle topic. You can use "Handed" instead a verb "Passed", if it concerns topics such as transported, transmitted.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- He is eleven years old when first taken to the Turkish campsite, and an extremely beautiful child, described as "dark and otherworldly." Instead of handed a sword, he gets passed around from soldier to soldier.
Source: Literature / Count and Countess - In Dark Souls II, the Majestic Greatsword is said to have been passed down into many generations, all of its wielder being left-handed.
Source: Situational Sword -
Direct Line to the Author: In a send-up of this trope the conceit of Tomcat Murr is that Hoffmann was handed Murr's manuscript by an intermediary for publication, but that he neglected to examine the pile before he passed it on to the publisher.
Source: Creator / E. T. A. Hoffmann
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