noun
Meaning 1
Self-deception.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
self-abuse
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UK: /sɛlfəˈbjuːs/
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noun
Meaning 2
Physical or verbal maltreatment of oneself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
Physical or verbal maltreatment of oneself.
Injury inflicted deliberately upon oneself, especially resulting from a mental disorder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: self-harm
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Masturbation, regarded as sinful or harmful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated, euphemistic, uncountable
Qualifier: now frequently ironic or humorous
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: self-pollution, celebrating Palm Sunday, choking the chicken, ham shank, hand shandy, Hand Solo, ipsation, jacking off, jerking off, lone rangering, manustupration, mastupration, masturbation, milking the sausage, onanism, peeling the cucumber, pocket pool, polishing the jewels, romancing the bone, secret vice, self-abuse, self-defilement, self-love, self-pleasure, shaking hands with the milkman, shaking out the curtains, solipsism, solitary vice, spanking the monkey, tossing off, wank
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To harm oneself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 6
To masturbate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, euphemistic
Qualifier: now frequently ironic or humorous
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noun
Meaning 7
manual stimulation of your own genital organ for sexual pleasure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: self-stimulation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: masturbation, onanism
History
Etymology
From self- + abuse. Compare self-abusing (adj.).
Across languages
Translations
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Norwegian Bokmål: selvbedrageri — self-deception
- Polish: autoagresja — self-deception
- Norwegian Bokmål: selvskading — self-harm
- Polish: autoagresja — self-harm