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What is "self-abuse"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
self-abuse
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And if self-abuse stunts your growth, why put mucky mags on the top shelf?
▪ This addiction to self-abuse began to tell on me.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-abuse

Self-abuse \Self`-abuse"\, n.

  1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties.

  2. Self-deception; delusion. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  3. Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
self-abuse

c.1600, "self-deception," from self- + abuse (n.). As a synonym for "masturbation," it is recorded from 1728; an earlier term was self-pollution (1620s).

Wiktionary
self-abuse

n. 1 self-deception. (from early 17th c.) 2 (context historical euphemistic English) masturbation. (from 18th c.) 3 self-harm. vb. (context historical euphemistic English) To masturbate.

WordNet
self-abuse

n. manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure [syn: masturbation, onanism]

Wikipedia
Self-abuse

Self-abuse may refer to:

  • Self-harm, the intentional, direct injuring of one's own body without suicidal intentions
  • Self-destructive behaviour, patterns of behaviour to inflict metaphorical or literal harm on oneself
  • Self-inflicted wound, harming oneself without psychological problems but to take advantage of being injured
  • An alternative term for masturbation

Usage examples of "self-abuse".

Coupled with skilled questioning intended to bring forth every final detail, including self-abuse and compulsive overconsumption of Baby Ruths, Mars Bars, Butterfingers, significance of which in terms of sexual self-aggrandizement was first pointed out to me by this good and holy man.

The poor man, she thought, imagining his solitary bouts of guilt-ridden self-abuse in a dark rectory bedroom.

Incidentally, the arrhythmic meaty whacking sound is Booger hitting himself in the thigh and chest in there, which self-abuse is a textbook symptom of an anxiously depressed episode.

Or when lonely weirdos started using dittos for sex, muddying all the boundaries between fantasy, infidelity, and self-abuse.