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Etymology

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FromFrenchmassage(noun), frommasser(“to massage”) (borrowed around the end of the 18th century fromArabicمَسَّ(massa,“feel, touch”), or fromPortugueseamassar) +-age. Cognate toGermanmassieren.

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Noun

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massage (countable anduncountable,pluralmassages)

  1. The action ofrubbing,kneading orhitting someone's body, to help the personrelax, prepare for muscular action (as in contact sports) or to relieveaches.
    Having amassage 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 shouldermassage.
  2. The action of rubbing or kneading anything.
    The baker gave the dough one finalmassage.

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rubbing, kneading, or hitting muscled part of a body

Verb

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massage (third-person singular simple presentmassages,present participlemassaging,simple past and past participlemassaged)

  1. (transitive) Torub andknead (someone's body or a part of a body), to perform a massage on (somebody).
    My neck doesn't hurt as much as it did last night since my wifemassaged me after I got back from the concert.
    • 2010 January 11, Julian Kaye,Massage Therapy‎[1]:
      So aftermassaging a nude woman while being nude or nearly nude myself, sex is a natural way to end things.
  2. (transitive) To rub or knead anything.
    Massage the kale to soften it before making the salad.
  3. (transitive) Tomanipulate (data, a document etc.) to make it morepresentable or more convenient to work with.
    • 2002,Colin Jones,The Great Nation, Penguin, published2003, page118:
      News relating to public disturbances was systematicallymassaged [...].
    • 2008 May 22, Patrick Wintour, Steven Morris,The Guardian, page 3:
      The Conservatives havemassaged expectations down by saying they would be delighted with a majority of 1,000[…]
  4. (transitive) Tofalsify (data or accounts).

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Translations

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to perform a massage on somebody
to manipulate data or a document
to falsify data or accounts

Dutch

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Etymology

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FromFrenchmassage.

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  • IPA(key): /mɑˈsaːʒə/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation:mas‧sa‧ge

Noun

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massage f (pluralmassages,diminutivemassagetje n)

  1. physicalmassage

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French

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Etymology

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Frommasser +‎-age.

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massage m (pluralmassages)

  1. physicalmassage

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Swedish

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Etymology

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FromFrenchmassage.

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massage c

  1. massage

Declension

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Declension ofmassage
nominativegenitive
singularindefinitemassagemassages
definitemassagenmassagens
pluralindefinitemassagermassagers
definitemassagernamassagernas

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