Synonyms for hand-down
hand-down

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1. hand-me-down, hand-downverb

   passed on from one person to another

   "not too proud to wear hand-me-down clothes"

   Synonyms:
   hand-me-down

   Antonyms:
   new

2. hand downverb

   passed on, as by inheritance

   "This ring was handed down through many generations"

   Synonyms:
   hand down

   Antonyms:
   new

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1. Alison Jacobson:

   A great way to test if a surface is too soft is to press your hand down and then lift it up. If your hand leaves an indentation, it's too soft.

2. Mayor Mike Rawlings:

   Holy smokes, that's the original fingerprints. Could you imagine holding his hand down?

3. John F. Kennedy:

   It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

4. Ralph Regenvanu:

   We hope that the highest court in the world, the International Court of Justice, will hand down an opinion that will be greatly persuasive in terms of increasing domestic action and identifying what gaps in international law and domestic law that need to be filled, this will be the first time that this organ of the UN will actually have to address the climate crisis, and the legal obligations of states in that regard, so it is quite historic.

5. Queen Constance:

   Behind every successful man must be a very successful, staunch woman, our tradition has it that when you are king, the elderly wives remain to hand down the tradition to the younger wives, and also to teach the king the tradition because the king had been a prince, not a king.