He's living his role to the hilt.
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Hilt
//hɪlt//
Synonyms for "hilt" (5 found)
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9 entriesTranslations
64 translations across 42 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- λαβή noun (handle of a sword)
Arabic
1 entries- مَقْبَض noun (handle of a sword)
Armenian
1 entries- դաստակ noun (handle of a sword)
Belarusian
4 entries- дзяржа́нне noun (handle of a sword)
- рукая́тка noun (handle of a sword)
- рукая́ць noun (handle of a sword)
- эфе́с noun (handle of a sword)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ефес noun (handle of a sword)
Catalan
1 entries- empunyadura noun (handle of a sword)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 刀柄 noun (handle of a sword)
- 柄 noun (handle of a sword)
Czech
1 entries- jílec noun (handle of a sword)
Danish
1 entries- hæfte noun (handle of a sword)
Dutch
1 entries- heft noun (handle of a sword)
Esperanto
1 entries- tenilo noun (handle of a sword)
Finnish
1 entries- kahva noun (handle of a sword)
French
1 entries- poignée noun (handle of a sword)
Galician
2 entries- mango noun (handle of a sword)
- puño noun (handle of a sword)
German
1 entries- Griff noun (handle of a sword)
Greek
1 entries- λαβή noun (handle of a sword)
Hungarian
1 entries- markolat noun (handle of a sword)
Icelandic
1 entries- hjalt noun (handle of a sword)
Indonesian
1 entries- gagang noun (handle of a sword)
Irish
2 entries- dornchla noun (handle of a sword)
- feirc noun (handle of a sword)
Italian
4 entries- coccia noun (handle of a sword)
- elsa noun (handle of a sword)
- guardamano noun (handle of a sword)
- impugnatura noun (handle of a sword)
Japanese
1 entries- 柄 noun (handle of a sword)
Khmer
2 entries- ច្រាម noun (handle of a sword)
- ដង noun (handle of a sword)
Korean
2 entries- 자루 noun (handle of a sword)
- 칼자루 noun (handle of a sword)
Latin
1 entries- manūbrium noun (handle of a sword)
Lithuanian
1 entries- rankena noun (handle of a sword)
Macedonian
1 entries- балчак noun (handle of a sword)
Malay
1 entries- hulu noun (handle of a sword)
Mongolian
1 entries- бариул noun (handle of a sword)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- hjalt noun (handle of a sword)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- hjalt noun (handle of a sword)
Polish
1 entries- rękojeść noun (handle of a sword)
Portuguese
3 entries- cabo noun (handle of a sword)
- empunhadura noun (handle of a sword)
- mango noun (handle of a sword)
Russian
3 entries- рукоя́тка noun (handle of a sword)
- рукоя́ть noun (handle of a sword)
- эфе́с noun (handle of a sword)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- balčak noun (handle of a sword)
Spanish
2 entries- empuñadura noun (handle of a sword)
- mango noun (handle of a sword)
Swedish
1 entries- hjalt noun (handle of a sword)
Tagalog
1 entries- puluhan noun (handle of a sword)
Turkish
1 entries- kabza noun (handle of a sword)
Ukrainian
4 entries- де́ржално noun (handle of a sword)
- держа́к noun (handle of a sword)
- держа́ло noun (handle of a sword)
- ефе́с noun (handle of a sword)
Vietnamese
2 entries- chuôi noun (handle of a sword)
- cán noun (handle of a sword)
Welsh
1 entries- carn noun (handle of a sword)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
She shoved the knife in to the hilt.
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The hilt of Sir Thomas' sword was intricately decorated with silver leaf.
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The hero's sword got stuck in a tree, so he grabbed it by the hilt and pulled as hard as he could. "Move, damn you!" he said through gritted teeth.
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