self-abuse
UK/sɛlfəˈbjuːs/
self-abuse noun: self-deception.
Noun
self-abuse (countable and uncountable, plural self-abuses)
- Self-deception.
- Come, wee’l to ſleepe: My ſtrange & ſelf-abuſe
Is the initiate feare, that wants hard vse:
We are yet but yong indeed.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- Come, wee’l to ſleepe: My ſtrange & ſelf-abuſe
- Physical or verbal maltreatment of oneself.
- No man hath any warrant for self-abuse: We are not nostri, sed alieni juris; and God will see we shall not destroy his work besides his will.1653, Edward Waterhouse, Two Brief Meditations, London: Thomas Maxey, retrieved 28 Feb 2022, page 58
- Injury inflicted deliberately upon oneself, especially resulting from a mental disorder.
- If such conversion surgery is not readily available, which is normally the case, owing to the many legal dangers attendant to the operation(s), the transsexual may well attempt self-castration, other mutilations and even suicide, or fall into a reactive psychosis. Such self-abuse is apparently not...1970, David W. Meyers, The Human Body and Law: A Medico-legal Study, Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 48
- Well I lost control and hurt myself
I knew deep down that I needed some help
This self-abuse, it would not stop,
No matter how hard I tried2005, Mark Civitarese, Scott Hadayia, Edward Underwood, “Scream Out”, in State of Discontent (CD), performed by The Unseen, →OCLC, ISWC T0722550857
- Masturbation, regarded as sinful or harmful.
- For which reaſon it is that a Gleet is always more or leſs difficult to Cure, as it is of greater or leſs Continuance, or is occaſioned by more or leſs Frequent ſelf Abuſes, or a more or leſs virulent Humor which gave the preceeding Infection; by every one of which cauſes the Glands are always more...1718, A Rational Account of the Cause, Nature, and Cure of Gleets, London, retrieved 28 Feb 2022, page 32
- The vice consists in any excitement of the genital organs produced otherwise than in the natural way. It is known by the terms, self-pollution, self-abuse, masturbation, onanism, manustupration, voluntary pollution, solitary or secret vice, and other names sufficiently explanatory.[1881, John Harvey Kellogg, Plain Facts for Old and Young
Verb
self-abuse (third-person singular simple present self-abuses, present participle self-abusing, simple past and past participle self-abused)
- To harm oneself.
- To masturbate.
self-abuse meaning in Tamil and Kannada
self-abuse in Tamil
- தற்புணர்ச்சிப் பழக்கம், முட்டிமை, தற்பழிப்பு
self-abuse in Kannada
- ಆತ್ಮನಿಂದೆ, ತನ್ನನ್ನುತಾನೇ ಬೈದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು, ಮುಷ್ಠಿಮೈಥುನ
Synonyms of self-abuse
- self-harm
- self-pollution
- beat one's meat
- celebrating Palm Sunday
- choking the chicken
- ham shank
- hand shandy
- Hand Solo
- ipsation
- jacking off
22 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- jerking off
- lone rangering
- manustupration
- mastupration
- masturbation
- milking the sausage
- onanism
- peeling the cucumber
- pocket pool
- polishing the jewels
- romancing the bone
- self-defilement
- self-love
- self-pleasure
- shaking hands with the milkman
- shaking out the curtains
- solipsism
- spanking the monkey
- tossing off
- wank
- secret vice
- solitary vice
Forms of self-abuse
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | self-abuses |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | self-abuses |
| present participle | self-abusing |
| past participle | self-abused |
| past | self-abused |
Origin of self-abuse
From self- + abuse. Compare self-abusing (adj.).
Questions about self-abuse
- What does self-abuse mean?
- Self-abuse means self-deception.
- What is self-abuse in Tamil?
- Self-abuse in Tamil is தற்புணர்ச்சிப் பழக்கம், முட்டிமை, தற்பழிப்பு. See Self-abuse meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is self-abuse?
- Self-abuse can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce self-abuse?
- Self-abuse is pronounced /sɛlfəˈbjuːs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of self-abuse?
- The plural of self-abuse is self-abuses.
Words near self-abuse in the dictionary
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