single-handed
- s unsupported by other people
- s without help from others
a single-handed accomplishment - r without assistance
I built this house single-handedly
- Shrek didn't remake fairy tales single-handed; it captured, and monetized, a long-simmering cultural trend.
- Today, single-handed and in his own right, el gran Mirador controls some 10% of the world's tin output.
- It was the private war of "Christian General" Feng Yuhsiang, ostensibly to drive the Japanese single-handed out of China's "lost provinces.