masturbate
verb🔊/ˈmæstəbeɪt/
🔊/ˈmæstərbeɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they masturbate | 🔊/ˈmæstəbeɪt/ 🔊/ˈmæstərbeɪt/ |
| he / she / it masturbates | 🔊/ˈmæstəbeɪts/ 🔊/ˈmæstərbeɪts/ |
| past simple masturbated | 🔊/ˈmæstəbeɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈmæstərbeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle masturbated | 🔊/ˈmæstəbeɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈmæstərbeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form masturbating | 🔊/ˈmæstəbeɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈmæstərbeɪtɪŋ/ |
- [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.