hand over
verb- To relinquish control or possession of something to someone. · I handed over the controls to the copilot.
- To deliver (someone to an enemy, police, etc.).
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Villefort fell back on his chair, passed his hand over his brow, moist with perspiration, and, for the third time, read the letter.
His eyes fairly glittered as he spoke, and he put his hand over his heart and bowed as if to some applauding crowd conjured up by his imagination.
I passed my hand over my brow.
Now our prisoner sat up, looked round him with a horror-stricken face, and passed his hand over his forehead, like one who cannot believe his own senses.
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