Contact and joining
Synonyms for handle
Synonyms for handle: palm and treat. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for handle
Interchangeable with handle in this sense
Audited under handle's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one handle carries in that sense.
- palmverb, in the sense "touch, lift, or hold with the hands"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name handle as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- treattreat is a verb in the sense "interact in a certain way"
The first group is filed under handle's own sense. The second reaches handle from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
touch, lift, or hold with the hands
Don't handle the merchandise.
The true synonym
palm
Same sentence, swapped: Don't palm the merchandise.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- cover
- treat
- mouth
Where handle turns up in the game
handle is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where handle is the trap
- marketnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is grocery, in the sense "a marketplace where groceries are sold", and handle is one of the three tiles that lose.
- coververb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is insure, in the sense "protect by insurance", with handle sitting one tile away.
- wieldverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is maintain, in the sense "have and exercise", with handle sitting one tile away.
- bossnoun, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is hirer, in the sense "a person responsible for hiring workers", so handle is there to be ruled out.
Play handle
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so handle reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from contact and joining at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. handle carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.