Meaning

4 senses

  1. (transitive)To move something heavy by force of men, without aid of levers, pulleys, machine, or tackles.

  2. (transitive)To assault or beat up a person.

    angreifen, herfallen über, übel zurichten

  3. (transitive)To mishandle; to handle roughly; to mangle.

    misshandeln

    грубо обращатьсяgrubo obraščatʹsja

    handle roughly

  4. (transitive)To control (a machine, vehicle, situation, etc.) by means of physical strength.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Don't manhandle the women.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to handle roughly:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to assault or beat up:
to handle roughly:

Origin

From Middle English manne-handlen, man handelen, equivalent to man (“male person”) + handl

From Middle English manne-handlen, man handelen, equivalent to man (“male person”) + handle.

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Forms

manhandles, manhandling, manhandled, manhandled
Base formmanhandle · to manhandle
3rd person singularmanhandles
Present participlemanhandling
Past simplemanhandled
Past participlemanhandled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymanhandle
he, she, itmanhandles

Past simpleLesson

all personsmanhandled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave manhandled
he, she, ithas manhandled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill manhandle

Synonyms

3 synonyms
mistreatB2rough upmaltreat

Antonyms

1 antonyms
womanhandle

Word family

1 related words
Derivedmanhandler

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mangleC2mangoB2mangrovemanholemanhoodmanhuamanhunt
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