I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ long , short
▪ carrying
▪
The table folds up and comes complete with a carrying ~.
▪ door
▪ broom , fork , knife , pickaxe/pickax , etc.
▪ brass , metal , wooden , etc.
VERB + HANDLE
▪ have
▪ pull , push , try , turn
▪
You have to turn the ~ and then pull it.
▪
He tried the ~ but the door was locked.
▪ grasp , grip
PREPOSITION
▪ on a/the ~
▪
His initials were on the knife ~.
II.
verb
1 touch sth with your hands
ADVERB
▪ carefully , with care
▪
A label on the crate read: ‘Handle with care’.
▪ carelessly
▪
Gardening tools can be hazardous if carelessly ~d.
▪ roughly
▪
Many of the prisoners were roughly ~d; some were killed.
2 deal with sb/sth
ADVERB
▪ competently , efficiently , properly , skilfully/skillfully , successfully , well
▪
I think you ~d that situation very well.
▪ badly
▪ carefully , delicately
▪
This issue may need to be ~d carefully.
▪ easily
▪
Her next question was not so easily ~d.
▪ routinely
▪
The library routinely ~s a wide variety of queries.
VERB + HANDLE
▪ be able to , be unable to , can , know how to
▪
This was a problem that I just couldn't ~.
▪
She knew how to ~ publicity.
▪ be designed to , be equipped to
▪
He wasn't mentally equipped to ~ this situation.
▪ learn how to
▪ be easy to
▪ be difficult to , be hard to
▪
Large meetings are more difficult to ~.
PREPOSITION
▪ with
▪
She ~d the crisis with total assurance.
Handle is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ bureau
Handle is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ affair , ↑ ball , ↑ business , ↑ call , ↑ cargo , ↑ case , ↑ challenge , ↑ chore , ↑ complaint , ↑ complexity , ↑ conflict , ↑ correspondence , ↑ crisis , ↑ criticism , ↑ data , ↑ demand , ↑ detail , ↑ disagreement , ↑ disappointment , ↑ disaster , ↑ dispute , ↑ distribution , ↑ divorce , ↑ duty , ↑ economy , ↑ emergency , ↑ emotion , ↑ enquiry , ↑ finance , ↑ firearm , ↑ food , ↑ freight , ↑ gun , ↑ horse , ↑ incident , ↑ influx , ↑ job , ↑ liquor , ↑ load , ↑ mail , ↑ management , ↑ matter , ↑ negotiation , ↑ paperwork , ↑ pressure , ↑ problem , ↑ query , ↑ rejection , ↑ relationship , ↑ request , ↑ responsibility , ↑ rigour , ↑ role , ↑ situation , ↑ stress , ↑ task , ↑ text , ↑ thing , ↑ traffic , ↑ transaction , ↑ truth , ↑ waste , ↑ workload