Meaning

3 senses
  1. (intransitive)To stimulate oneself sexually, especially by use of one’s hand or a sex toy made for this purpose, often to the point of ejaculation or orgasm.

    I'm looking for some hot videos to masturbate to.

    stimulate sexually

  2. (colloquial, transitive)To manually or by other means than one's own genitals stimulate someone else's genitals sexually.

  3. (derogatory, informal)To stimulate or please oneself by means of anything, not necessarily sexual, that does not get them anywhere; something that wastes their time; something that does not help others or achieve any important goal.

Examples

30 sentences
  1. Stop masturbating and look for a job.

    Досить вже мастурбувати, шукай роботу.

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  2. Mary's favorite pastime was reading philosophy books, while Tom preferred masturbating.

    Улюбленним заняттям Мері було читання філософських книг, у той час як Том надавав перевагу мастурбуванню.

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  3. Mary's favourite pastime was reading philosophy books, while Tom, he preferred masturbating.

    Улюбленним заняттям Мері було читання філософських книг, а щодо Тома, він надавав перевагу мастурбуванню.

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  4. Tom is masturbating.

    Том мастурбує.

    ruТом сейчас мастурбирует.

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  5. Sami can't masturbate without watching porn.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to masturbate:
Русский
By meaning 1
to masturbate:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to masturbate:

Origin

A back-formation from masturbation, or else from Latin masturbātus (see -ate), past partic

A back-formation from masturbation, or else from Latin masturbātus (see -ate), past participle of masturbor. Further derivation of the Latin verb is uncertain; see masturbor for more.

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Forms

masturbates, masturbating, masturbated, masturbated
Base formmasturbate · to masturbate
3rd person singularmasturbates
Present participlemasturbating
Past simplemasturbated
Past participlemasturbated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymasturbate
he, she, itmasturbates

Past simpleLesson

all personsmasturbated

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill masturbate

Synonyms

59 synonyms

Word family

17 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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