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behandle en · VERB

Etymology

From be- + handle. Cognate with Saterland Frisian behondelje (“to handle, deal with, treat”), Dutch behandelen (“to handle, treat”), German behandeln (“to treat”), Norwegian behandle (“to treat”).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To handle all about; take (up) in one's hands; care for; deal with; treat.
   • In England I know a household where, after the eight o'clock breakfast, it is usual to behandle one's skeins, find one's knitting, and continue the long even rounds of the stocking begun yesterday, or copy patiently the completed gusset in the sleeve of a spencer. 1892, Ménie Muriel Dowie, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, A girl in the Karpathians:

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