single-handed
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3.8
- adjective
- /ˈsɪŋɡlˌhændɪd/
:
en solitario
- You captured Ragnar single-handed?
- single-handed yacht race
Examples
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Don't try to run this place single-handed.
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Skippers sail very fast boats single-handed, non-stop around the world.
Blog text (9) -
I could take on the whole army single-handed, and I might even win.
Fiction book (2002) -
"I can run it single-handed, if I have to."
Fiction book (1990) -
What are you trying to do, win the war single-handed?
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I can tackle this lot single-handed!
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I hear he captured a whole machine-gun nest single-handed.
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He charged an enemy stronghold single-handed.
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What about the time old Pecos Bill took on, single-handed, 50 of the toughest, meanest outlaws this side of the Rockies?
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I could take on the whole army single-handed, and I might even win.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
By yourself with no other people present
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2.7
By itself with no other people or things nearby
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2.9
Without help from other people
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2.9
Without any other people present
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4.1
Without help from other people
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4.9
Done without help from other people
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3.9
Without help from anyone else
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5.9
Done personally by the person who made or wrote it
Antonyms
How Independent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word single-handed comes from single ('one') and handed (from hand, which can mean a 'help' or the body 'hand') and first suggested doing something 'with one hand'. So, to do something single-handed now means to do it alone, without help.