Handle
Handle verb - To put up with (something painful or difficult).
Usage example: I can't handle much more of this foul weather
Meet
Meet verb - To put up with (something painful or difficult).
Usage example: trying to meet the challenge of going to college while working at a full-time job
Handle is a synonym for meet in greet topic. Sometimes you can use "Handle" instead a verb "Meet", if it concerns topics such as perform, fulfil.
Nearby Word: meeting
How words are described
| long | long handle | long meet |
| short | short handle | short meet |
| real | real handle | real meet |
| possible | possible handle | possible meet |
| Other adjectives: red. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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He did meet producing partner Scott Mosier while there, who does handle the more technical side of things.
Source: Creator / Kevin Smith - The policeman called up to handle the situation spreads the story around the station, whereupon Murphy immediately ribs Harry about it the next time they meet.
Source: Brick Joke / Literature - We meet the Omnicons, who through millennia of Acquired Poison Immunity, can handle raw energon, and are the craftsbots who turn it into usable forms.
Source: Minovsky Physics
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