masturbate

Other forms of masturbate

past tense

masturbated·

present participle

masturbating·

third person

masturbates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about masturbate

What does masturbate mean?

masturbate means "stimulate sexually". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in masturbate?

masturbate has 3 syllables: mas-tur-bate. The stress falls on "mas". In IPA it is /ˈmæstɚˌbeɪt/.

What is another word for masturbate?

Close synonyms include wank, fuck off, she-bop, jack off, jerk off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is masturbate a common word?

masturbate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with masturbate?

8 words rhyme with masturbate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.