MASTURBATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they masturbate ... he / she / it masturbates

Past simple: masturbated

Past participle: masturbated

-ing form: masturbating

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get sexual gratification through self-stimulation

Synonyms:

fuck off; jack off; jerk off; masturbate; she-bop; wank

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "masturbate" is one way to...):

excite; stimulate; stir (stir feelings in)

"Masturbate" entails doing...:

caress; fondle (touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner)

Verb group:

masturbate (stimulate sexually)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "masturbate"):

scarf (masturbate while strangling oneself)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

masturbation (manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure)

masturbator (a person who practices masturbation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Stimulate sexually

Example:

The old man wanted to be masturbated by the prostitute