masturbate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they masturbate | |
| he / she / it masturbates | |
| past simple masturbated | |
| past participle masturbated | |
| -ing form masturbating |
- [intransitive, transitive] masturbate (yourself)
to give yourself sexual pleasure by rubbing your sexual organs 手淫 - [transitive] masturbate somebody
to give somebody sexual pleasure by rubbing their sexual organs 对（某人）行手淫
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from Latin masturbat- ‘masturbated’, from the verb masturbari, of unknown origin.