Usually means: Rough or forceful handling of someone.
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  1. manhandling: Merriam-Webster
  2. manhandling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. manhandling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Manhandling, manhandling: Wordnik
  5. manhandling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. manhandling: Wiktionary
  7. manhandling: Dictionary.com
  8. manhandling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. manhandling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. manhandling: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. manhandling: Wordcraft Dictionary

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▸ noun:  The act of one who manhandles; rough physical treatment.

Similar:
punishment, beat up, bludgeonry, hacking, shoving, brutality, grapple, assault, handygripes, butchery, more...

Opposite:
handle gently, handle with care, treat delicately

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Similar:
punishment, beat up, bludgeonry, hacking, shoving, brutality, grapple, assault, handygripes, butchery, more...

Opposite:
handle gently, handle with care, treat delicately



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