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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hand-to-hand
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hand-to-hand combat (=in which you are close enough to touch your opponent)
▪ Thousands of men were killed in hand-to-hand combat in less than 24 hours.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
combat
▪ Once engaged in hand-to-hand combat in this way the Squig Hopper is pinioned to the ground and does not move away.
▪ The other imagines a fictional battle, with Napoleon's army in hand-to-hand combat with the fort's defenders.
▪ Your army contains troops which are very good in hand-to-hand combat - use them to spearhead your advance.
▪ This gives 1 extra attack, worked out immediately prior to hand-to-hand combat regardless of initiative levels or which side charged.
▪ However, if its movement carries it into any other target it charges into hand-to-hand combat and stops.
▪ He can not be broken in hand-to-hand combat and needs never take a break test.
▪ In hand-to-hand combat Magnus may strike a single Mighty Blow instead of his usual hand-to-hand attacks.
▪ Immediately work out hand-to-hand combat with all models in base contact fighting.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All hits against the chariot in hand-to-hand or shooting are randomly allocated as shown below.
▪ Enemy models attempting to fight against the chariot in hand-to-hand fighting always compare their weapon skill against that of the crew.
▪ Infantry, he added, deliberately placed themselves in positions where they would be engaged in hand-to-hand combat.
▪ Magic swords are a good investment because anything that improves your hand-to-hand fighting abilities is a good idea.
▪ Once engaged in hand-to-hand combat in this way the Squig Hopper is pinioned to the ground and does not move away.
▪ The Covenanters drew swords and spears, advanced on to the soft ground, and engaged the Dragoons in bloody hand-to-hand fighting.
▪ The other imagines a fictional battle, with Napoleon's army in hand-to-hand combat with the fort's defenders.
▪ Your army contains troops which are very good in hand-to-hand combat - use them to spearhead your advance.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hand-to-hand

hand-to-hand \hand-to-hand\ adj. close to one's adversary; -- of combat; as, hand-to-hand fighting.

Syn: at close quarters(predicate).

Wiktionary
hand-to-hand

a. 1 Close together, within arm's reach. 2 Especially, fighting done within reach rather than at range. May or may not indicate unarmed combat.

WordNet
hand-to-hand

adj. being at close quarters; "hand-to-hand fighting"

Usage examples of "hand-to-hand".

Everything from Vedic mathematics, physics, geography, Ayurveda and the study of human physiognomy, cosmology, astronomy and astrology to military strategy, self-defense and hand-to-hand combat, mastery of weapons, engineering and architecture .

Even Duras, in his prime and strong, doubted he would emerge the victor in hand-to-hand combat with the ancient warrior.

Sidearm had a long, heavy rib running from its muzzle to the base of its handshield, a deflector for defense against edged or blunt weapons in hand-to-hand combat.

The cries of pain and bloodstained clothing of his adversaries made him grateful for the techniques gleaned from his associates in La Justicia, as infallible on the Circle of the Master as in all-out, hand-to-hand combat.

When there were no lines, men fought In small bunches, the horses bringing them together, hand-to-hand struggles, sword against sword, pistols blazing into the faces of men you could touch.

Ransdell fought hand-to-hand with twelve or fourteen Midianites, who attacked his party as it came through the gate.

Tall Man was outside the agency headquarters, surrounded by Piegan tribal police and engaged in a silent fury of hand-to-hand combat with at least eight of the snotty sons of bitches.

The attackers wielded an amazing assortment of weapons, from blades that curled back upon themselves to almost form circles, to pikelike devices that terminated in barbed tips seemingly more suited to catching fish than hand-to-hand combat.

For this particular reenactment, the organizers had choreographed hand-to-hand combat among the skirmishers.

At first they only dared to attack stragglers and transport drivers, avoiding hand-to-hand fighting but flinging volleys of assegais and darts from behind cover, and running back into the forest if a Roman so much as shook a sword and shouted.

New barricades would probably be constructed during the evening, the forward movement of the resistance was being precipitated, the hand-to-hand struggle which the Committee had wished to delay seemed imminent, all was rushing forward with a sort of irresistible impulse.

The Metrons caught us both and decided to resolve our conflict with a hand-to-hand battle.

He glanced back at the three men still blocking their escape, hoping fervently that the Peacekeepers had found time to teach their elite Copperhead pilots something in the way of hand-to-hand fighting.

Backbreaker Ames called him out on New Angola, and though Ames was seven feet tall, 400 pounds of rock-hard muscle, and a former freehand heavyweight champion, the young Widowmaker killed him in hand-to-hand combat.

He homed in69 70 Robert Asprin on the Flie brothers as his demonstrator/victims,and had great fun showin' us all that size was nota factor in hand-to-hand combat by tossin' andpunchin' 'em both around with impressive ease .