Meaning

4 senses
  1. (transitive)To rub and knead (someone's body or body part), to perform a massage on (somebody).

    My neck doesn't hurt as much as it did last night since my wife massaged me after I got back from the concert.

    massieren

    масси́роватьmassírovatʹ, де́лать масса́жdélatʹ massáž

    масажува́тиmasažuváty, промасажува́тиpromasažuváty

  2. (transitive)To rub or knead anything.

    Massage the kale to soften it before making the salad.

  3. (transitive)To manipulate (data, a document etc.) to make it more presentable or more convenient to work with.

    schönen

  4. (transitive)To falsify (data or accounts).

More definitions
  • give a massage to
  • manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes

Examples

210 sentences
  1. When was the last time you had a massage?

    Коли останнього разу тобі робили масаж? — deniko

    ruКогда тебе в последний раз делали массаж? — Ooneykcall

  2. I want a massage. I need to relax.

    Хочу масаж. Мені треба розслабитися. — sakhnik

    deIch habe Lust auf eine Massage. Ich muss mich entspannen. — MUIRIEL

  3. Tom tried out the massage chair at the store.

    Том випробував масажне крісло у крамниці. — oromashka

  4. I need a massage.

    Мені потрібен масаж. — deniko

    ruМне нужен массаж. — odexed

    CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · mervert1 · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  5. I really need a massage.

    Мені дуже потрібен масаж. — deniko

    ruМне очень нужен массаж. — odexed

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to perform a massage on somebody:
Русский
By meaning 1
to perform a massage on somebody:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to perform a massage on somebody:
to manipulate data or a document:

Origin

From French massage (noun), from masser (“to massage”) (borrowed around the end of the 18t

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.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

massages, massaging, massaged, massaged
Base formmassage · to massage
3rd person singularmassages
Present participlemassaging
Past simplemassaged
Past participlemassaged

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymassage
he, she, itmassages

Past simpleLesson

all personsmassaged

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave massaged
he, she, ithas massaged

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill massage

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes:rub downknead

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
massage — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto