HANDED Synonyms: 95 Similar and Opposite Words

handed

verb

Definition of handed

past tense of hand

as in provided

to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption was happy to hand her grandmother's cookie recipes to the parish ladies to put in their cookbook

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as in passed

to shift possession of (something) from one person to another the clerk handed her the receipt

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as in left

to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another handed me her bundles while she fished for her house keys

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Recent Examples of handed The deal also included no guard rails for how the $10 million should be spent, allowing it to be handed directly to two organizations without any effort to seek competitive bids. — Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026 Crawford, a longtime supporter of Ukraine and a devotee of the American pit bull terrier, came forward and handed a reddish-yellow puppy to Zelensky. — Laurie Kellman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026 Bonds, who carries the BRCA gene, remembers going to a waiting room and being handed a beeper that would alert her when a doctor was ready. — Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026 An hour later, a nurse handed Esther Bendera her newborn grandson. — ABC News, 26 Aug. 2026 In addition, Pitarch has been handed an improved contract and is now considered a first-team player, despite retaining a Castilla squad number. — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 Thus this year’s list honors those who do more than wear clothes well or live their lives in head-to-toe ensembles handed to them by eager PR apparatchiks. — Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026 Officers initially smelled the odor of unburnt cannabis during the stop, according to police, and Mark Stephens handed them an open container of weed. — Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026 In a rare judicial win in such cases, the client was handed 18 months in prison. — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for handed

Verb

That came in $39 million above the company guidance provided in May.

— Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
These images suggest that perhaps even Mars’ dry period provided habitats for life.

— Ashwin R. Vasavada, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of provided

Verb

From the moment Billie learns about Sophie-Rose, the teenager who inherited her legendary fake ID after it was already passed down to multiple other Gen-Z blondes, she’s obsessed.

— Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
That's a fraction of the roughly 130 vessels that passed through the vital waterway daily before the war began.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of passed

Verb

Instead, detectives say the group used falsified invoices and documents and transferred cash into personal bank accounts.

— Chelsea Jones, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
Defense lawyers have argued that the CIA’s treatment of Mohammed undermined the voluntariness of his later statements to the FBI, even though those interrogations took place after he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay.

— Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of transferred

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Rocket Lab was supposed to have a satellite on standby to go up and inspect True Anomaly’s spacecraft, ready to launch on short notice once military officials gave the order.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026
Additionally, prosecutors allege Rincker gave Alvarez a 12-gauge pump action shotgun, Jamioles said.

— Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2026

Definition of gave

Verb

That’s the group of free agents who garner the most attention, players who have reached six years of service time or more.

— Evan Drellich, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2026
The companies’ interest in the Monarch data center shows how the feeding frenzy for compute has reached a new pitch as AI companies look to nail down capacity amid the AI buildout.

— J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of reached

Verb

District 203 is entrusted with hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer resources.

— Jennifer Bruzan Taylor, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
Throughout his career, Satsky has been entrusted with highly confidential information involving some of the largest and most significant transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors, his lawyer, Anello said.

— Chase Jordan August 27, Charlotte Observer, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of entrusted

Verb

Turkey is known to have supplied Sudan’s military with TB2 drones after the country’s current civil war began in April 2023.

— Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
The recall is connected to an ongoing multistate salmonella outbreak linked to jalapeños supplied by Coast Citrus Distributors.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of supplied

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