0 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.
1 to move something using the physical strength of the body:
2 to handle someone with force or push someone around, often when taking the person somewhere:
The monks and nuns who were evicted said that they had been badly manhandled.
Jockey wheels incorporate a castor action, permitting travel in any direction while manhandling a trailer while it is not attached to a vehicle.
He showed that manhandled tissues, though they could not yell, could yet suffer and die.
She also said that she was manhandled and kept in a men's cell in jail.
He gets furious, manhandles her and leaves in rage.
Cargoes had to be laboriously manhandled between boats on either side.
The complainant, a girl of sixteen years, was seriously manhandled by the appellant, who showed no remorse afterwards.
Should they go on in the hope of making contact—which would mean manhandling their loads up that precipitous trail, a mile into the sky—or turn back?
