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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: handle roughly; "I was manhandled by the police"

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: 1851 1. to handle roughly 2. to move or manage by human force <manhandled the posts into place>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 move (heavy objects) by human effort. 2 colloq. handle (a person) roughly.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Manhandle Man*han"dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. -handled; p. pr. & vb. n. -handling.] 1. To move, or manage, by human force without mechanical aid; as, to manhandle a cannon. 2. To handle roughly; as, the captive was manhandled.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(manhandles, manhandling, manhandled) 1. If someone is manhandled, they are physically held or pushed, for example when they are being taken somewhere. Foreign journalists were manhandled by armed police, and told to leave... They manhandled the old man along the corridor. VERB: be V-ed, V n prep/adv, also V n 2. If you manhandle something big or heavy somewhere, you move it there by hand. The three of us manhandled the uncovered dinghy out of the shed. VERB: V n prep/adv

Moby Thesaurus

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