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MASTURBATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure
Synonyms:
masturbation; onanism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("masturbation" is a kind of...):
autoeroticism; autoerotism (using you own body as a sexual object)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "masturbation"):
self-abuse; self-stimulation (manual stimulation of your own genital organ for sexual pleasure)
frottage (masturbation by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd))
hand job; jacking off; jerking off; wank (slang for masturbation)
Derivation:
masturbate (get sexual gratification through self-stimulation)
masturbate (stimulate sexually)