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Massage
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- 1 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. countable, uncountable
"Having a massage can have many beneficial effects."
- 2 kneading and rubbing parts of the body to increase circulation and promote relaxation wordnet
- 3 The action of rubbing or kneading anything. countable, uncountable
"The baker gave the dough one final massage."
- 1 To rub and knead (someone's body or a part of a body), to perform a massage on (somebody). transitive
"My neck doesn't hurt as much as it did last night since my wife massaged me after I got back from the concert."
- 2 give a massage to wordnet
- 3 To rub or knead anything. transitive
"Massage the kale to soften it before making the salad."
- 4 manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes wordnet
- 5 To manipulate (data, a document etc.) to make it more presentable or more convenient to work with. transitive
"News relating to public disturbances was systematically massaged [...]."
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- 6 To falsify (data or accounts). transitive
Etymology
From French massage (noun), from masser (“to massage”) (borrowed around the end of the 18th century from Arabic مَسَّ (massa, “feel, touch”), or from Portuguese amassar) + -age. Cognate to German massieren.
From French massage (noun), from masser (“to massage”) (borrowed around the end of the 18th century from Arabic مَسَّ (massa, “feel, touch”), or from Portuguese amassar) + -age. Cognate to German massieren.
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