From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmanhandleman‧han‧dle /ˈmænhændl/ verb [transitive] 1 PUSHto push or handle someone roughlymanhandle somebody into/through etc something It had ended with Tony physically manhandling her out of the house.2 PUSHto move a heavy object using forcemanhandle something into/onto/across etc something We lifted it off the truck and manhandled it into the workshop.→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
manhandle• This would be such a female as our already seriously humbled hero could not manhandle as mere booty.• Rivera claimed he was kicked and manhandled by police.• Several foreign journalists who tried to film the incident were themselves manhandled by security forces and briefly detained.• It was all manhandled in those days.• Unaffected adventurers can help their friends to leave the Tower, but affected characters will have to be manhandled out of the place.• A ground party was immediately organised to manhandle the aircraft on to sheets of corrugated iron positioned on the tarmac.• In his rear mirror he watched his father struggle with the doors and manhandle the basket on to the ground.• We manhandled the formwork into position, digging out here and there to get it level in both directions.• The gang manhandled the stolen trailer through a gap in the fence.• The soldiers were manhandling two men into the yard. 