0 past simple and past participle of manhandle
1 to touch or hold someone roughly and with force, often when taking them somewhere:
There were complaints that the police had manhandled some of the demonstrators.
2 to move something using the physical strength of the body:
In those days he was manhandled more than once.
Many of the women resisted stoutly and a number were severely manhandled.
Mobs of seven- to eight-thousand people roamed the land and manhandled the officials of the fiscal administration.
The following day, at a neighbouring village, a large crowd threatened and manhandled a patrol of police and district messengers.
It is staggering to think that 20,000 people in this country can put themselves at risk of being manhandled yet still receive no pay.
Prisoners who are causing trouble have to be manhandled—that is not a purely theoretical issue.
What code of conduct is contained in the legislation to ensure that people are not manhandled, strip-searched or held in detention for unnecessarily long periods?
The special constable who had remained behind had been manhandled by the crowd and had received a blow on the chin.
