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English
Adjective
hand-to-hand (not comparable)
- Close together, within arm's reach. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- Especially, describing fighting (armed or unarmed) done within reach rather than at range.
- soldiers trained in hand-to-hand combat
Translations
fighting done within reach rather than at range