handle
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Synonyms for handle
deal with
fly off the handle
Synonyms
- lose your temper
- explode
- lose it
- lose the plot
- let fly
- go ballistic
- fly into a rage
- have a tantrum
- wig out
- lose your cool
- blow your top
- flip your lid
- hit or go through the roof
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Synonyms for handle
to bring the hands or fingers, for example, into contact with so as to give or receive a physical sensation
to use with or as if with the hands
Synonyms
the word or words by which one is called and identified
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Synonyms for handle
the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
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- axe handle
- baggage
- luggage
- baseball bat
- lumber
- briefcase
- broom handle
- broomstick
- brush
- carpet beater
- rug beater
- carrycot
- cheese cutter
- coffee cup
- coffeepot
- cricket bat
- bat
- crop
- eating utensil
- cutlery
- edge tool
- faucet
- spigot
- frying pan
- frypan
- skillet
- haft
- helve
- handbarrow
- handcart
- pushcart
- cart
- go-cart
- handlebar
- French telephone
- handset
- hand tool
- hilt
- hoe handle
- knob
- ladle
- mop handle
- mug
- panhandle
- saddlebow
- pommel
- racquet
- racket
- rake handle
- saucepan
- shank
- stem
- spatula
- stock
- gunstock
- teacup
- umbrella
- watering can
- watering pot
be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
interact in a certain way
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- treat
- bemock
- mock
- deal
- plow
- handle
- cover
- address
- disregard
- ignore
- snub
- cut
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- wrong
- handle with kid gloves
- criminalize
- nurse
- strong-arm
- ride roughshod
- run roughshod
- upstage
- rough-house
- brutalise
- brutalize
- do well by
- gloss over
- skate over
- skimp over
- slur over
- smooth over
- abuse
- ill-treat
- ill-use
- maltreat
- mistreat
- step
- baby
- cocker
- coddle
- cosset
- featherbed
- mollycoddle
- pamper
- spoil
- indulge
act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
show and train
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