massage

IPA: mʌsˈɑʒ

The action of rubbing, kneading or hitting someone's body, to help the person relax, prepare for muscular action (as in contact sports) or to relieve aches.
The action of rubbing or kneading anything.

(transitive) To rub and knead (someone's body or a part of a body), to perform a massage on (somebody).
(transitive) To rub or knead anything.
(transitive) To manipulate (data, a document etc.) to make it more presentable or more convenient to work with.
(transitive) To falsify (data or accounts).

Examples of "massage" in Sentences

I'm totally undoing whatever good this massage is doing.
One cannot receive a massage from a therapist who is not in the same room.
The most authentic massage is done with a venik or bundle of birch or oak twigs.
A four-hour workshop includes lessons in Swedish massage, deep-tissue techniques and trigger points.
When you examine the listings for various clinics and spas you can see that the term massage covers a large variety of styles of bodywork.
Chiropody also derived from the medical field, and licensed chiropodists were trained not only in massage, but in the anatomy of the foot.
Had the word massage existed at the time, speakers of English would no doubt have employed it instead to explain what they had seen or experienced.
Partly, I do it because I am curious and because I feel like I need to understand the latest and greatest in health and healing -- and massage is right up there for me.