It took courage to sail across the Pacific single-handed.
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Single-handed
Synonyms for "single-handed" (28 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (8)
Related words (14)
Adverb(1 words)
Adjective(2 words)
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2 entriesTranslations
17 translations across 8 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- без чужда помощ adj (without help from others; unassisted)
- с една ръка adj (using only one hand)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 独力 adj (without help from others; unassisted)
- 獨力 /独力 adj (without help from others; unassisted)
- 独力 adv (in a single-handed manner)
- 獨力 /独力 adv (in a single-handed manner)
Irish
1 entries- dólámhach adj (without help from others; unassisted)
Italian
1 entries- in solitaria adj (without help from others; unassisted)
Manx
2 entries- un-laueagh adj (without help from others; unassisted)
- un-laueagh adj (using only one hand)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- یالڭز adj (without help from others; unassisted)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- sȃm adj (without help from others; unassisted)
- са̑м adj (without help from others; unassisted)
Swedish
4 entries- enhands adj (using only one hand)
- enmans adj (without help from others; unassisted)
- egenhändigt adv (in a single-handed manner)
- på egen hand adv (in a single-handed manner)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
"It's mind-blowing," says WWF Director-General Marco Lambertini, describing the crisis as "unprecedented in its speed, in its scale, and because it is single-handed."
Source: tatoeba (7364327)
It worked through from Swindon with a test train of 16 coaches and the new W.R. dynamometer car, the whole totalling 571 tons; this is one of the heaviest trains ever worked by a single-handed locomotive over the South Devon banks—in fact, it was competently restarted from a test stop on Dainton bank.
Source: wiktionary
"Got those [sc. scars] with a broken bottle, arresting two toughs at once," he said, replacing his cap. "Run them in single-handed and had a set-to in the cell with them on top of it."
Source: wiktionary
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