massage
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
massage
- The action of rubbing, kneading or hitting someone's body, to help the person relax, prepare for muscular action (as in contact sports) or to relieve aches.
- Having a massage can have many beneficial effects.
- 2014, Gary Vitacco-Robles, Icon: The Life, Times and Films of Marilyn Monroe Volume 2 1956-1962 AND Beyond
- During the long lapses in work common with on-location productions, Marilyn would silently meditate as Roberts provided a shoulder massage.
- massage parlour, massage parlor
- massage therapist
- masseur, masseuse
massage (massages, present participle massaging; past and past participle massaged)
- (transitive) To rub and knead (someone's body or a part of a body), to perform a massage on (somebody).
- 2010, January 11, Julian Kaye, "Massage Therapy"
- So after massaging a nude woman while being nude or nearly nude myself, sex is a natural way to end things.
- 2010, January 11, Julian Kaye, "Massage Therapy"
- (transitive) To manipulate (data, a document etc.) to make it more presentable or more convenient to work with.
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 118:
- News relating to public disturbances was systematically massaged [...].
- 2008, Patrick Wintour & Steven Morris, The Guardian, May 22 2008, p. 3:
- The Conservatives have massaged expectations down by saying they would be delighted with a majority of 1,000 [...]
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 118:
- (transitive) To falsify (data or accounts).
- German: schönen
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