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put one's hand to

put one's hand to is the alternative form of turn one's hand to.

Meaning of turn one's hand to

Verb

turn one's hand to (third-person singular simple present turns one's hand to, present participle turning one's hand to, simple past and past participle turned one's hand to)

  1. To adapt or apply oneself to; to engage in; to undertake.
    • Having failed as a musician, I turned my hand to pottery instead.

Forms of put one's hand to

third-person singular presentputs one's hand to
present participleputting one's hand to
past participleput one's hand to
pastput one's hand to

Questions about put one's hand to

What is put one's hand to the alternative form of?
Put one's hand to is the alternative form of turn one's hand to.

Words near put one's hand to in the dictionary

  1. put one's foot in one's mouth
  2. put one's foot in someone's ass
  3. put one's foot in the door
  4. put one's foot up someone's ass
  5. put one's hand in one's pocket
  6. put one's hand to
  7. put one's hand to the plough
  8. put one's hand up
  9. put one's hands on
  10. put one's hands together
  11. put one's hands up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: put one's hand to (page history and authors); turn one's hand to (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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