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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Abuse of oneself or one's abilities.
  • noun Masturbation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The abuse of one's own person or powers.
  • noun Masturbation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties.
  • noun obsolete Self-deception; delusion.
  • noun Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Cutting of oneself.
  • verb historical, euphemistic To masturbate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun manual stimulation of your own genital organ for sexual pleasure

Etymologies

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self- +‎ abuse

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