Massage

Noun

 * 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.
 * Having a massage can have many beneficial effects.

Derived terms

 * erotic massage
 * massager
 * massage parlour, massage parlor
 * massage therapist
 * massotherapy

Related terms

 * masseur, masseuse

Verb

 * 1)  To rub and knead (someone's body or a part of a body), to perform a massage on (somebody).
 * 2)  To manipulate (data or a document) to make it more presentable or more convenient to work with.
 * 3) * 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 [...]
 * 1)  To falsify (data or accounts).

Thesaurus
bandage, bathe, care for, caress, cure, cushion, diagnose, doctor, ease, facial, facial massage, feel up, fiddle, finagle, fluff, flux, fondle, frictionize, gentle, give care to, handle, heal, knead, kneading, laxate, limber, limber up, loosen, manipulate, manipulation, mash, massaging, massotherapy, mellow, milden, minister to, mollify, nose, nurse, nuzzle, operate on, palpate, pet, physic, plaster, plump, poultice, pulp, purge, relax, remedy, rub, rub against, rub down, rub noses, rubdown, shake up, smash, soften, soften up, splint, squash, strap, stroke, stroking, subdue, supple, tenderize, tone down, treat, tune down, vibrator, whirlpool bath

Etymology
From massage:, from masser: + -age:.

Noun

 * Arabic: تدليك, تمسيد, مساج
 * Azeri: masaj
 * Belarusian: масаж
 * Catalan: massatge
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: massage
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: masaĝo
 * Estonian: masseerimine, massaaž
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: masaxe
 * German:
 * Greek: μαλάσσω, χειρομαλάσσω, εντρίβω
 * Icelandic: nudd
 * Indonesian:, urut


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: マッサージ
 * Kurdish: gemirandin, perixandin, mistdan,
 * Latvian: masāža
 * Lithuanian: masažas
 * Macedonian:, трлање
 * Malay: urut
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: massasje
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: massagem
 * Romanian: masaj, masare
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: masáž
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: massage
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: масаж

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: masseerima
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: masszíroz


 * Japanese: マッサージする
 * Macedonian: масира, трла
 * Polish: masować
 * Romanian: masa
 * Russian: массировать, делать массаж
 * Swedish: massera
 * Turkish: masaj yapmak
 * Volapük: masetön


 * Dutch:


 * German:


 * Dutch:

Noun

 * 1) A physical massage

Etymology
From see below

Related terms

 * masseren
 * masseur

Noun

 * 1) A physical massage

Related terms

 * masser
 * masseur, masseuse

Descendants

 * Arabic:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:


 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Kudish:
 * Macedonian:


 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:

Noun

 * 1) massage

Related terms

 * massieren

Noun
massage


 * 1) massage

Etymology
From massage:.

Related terms

 * massera
 * massör, massös