lift one's hand against
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To assault physically.
Example Sentences
- "[…] if David refus’d to lift his hand against the Lords anointed, the matter between them was not tyranny, but private enmity, and David as a private person had bin his own revenger, not so much the peoples;"
- "[…] an Officer of the Guards, on whom I was a little jocose, gave me a Box on the Ear, bidding me make free with my Equals. This very Fellow had been my Butt for many Years, without daring to lift his Hand against me."
- "I’m determined to forgive you. But I do wonder that you should lift your hand against a person that you knew to be so umble!"
- "And what did vagabonds do? Did they not live without law or custom, without faith or purpose, might they not then lift their hand against any other, any man who stood between them and the pitiful gain that they were seeking?"
Inflected Forms
lifts one's hand against (present, singular)
lifting one's hand against (participle, present)
lifted one's hand against (participle, past)
lifted one's hand against (past)
lift hand against (alternative)
lift a hand against (alternative)