MANHANDLE


Meaning of MANHANDLE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ mænhænd(ə)l ]

( 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

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