Word Meanings - SELF-ABUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties. 2. Self-deception; delusion. Shak. 3. Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.

Related words: (words related to SELF-ABUSE)

• ONANISM
  Self-pollution; masturbation.
• ABUSE
  1. To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle shoots rapidly
• DECEPTION
  1. The act of deceiving or misleading. South. 2. The state of being deceived or misled. There is one thing relating either to the action or enjoyments of man in which he is not liable to deception. South. 3. That which deceives or is intended to
• ABUSER
  One who abuses .
• DELUSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.
• DELUSION
  1. The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind. Pope. 2. The state of being deluded or misled. 3. That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief. And fondly mourned the dear delusion gone.
• MASTURBATION
  Onanism; self-pollution.
• ABUSEFUL
  Full of abuse; abusive. "Abuseful names." Bp. Barlow.
• POLLUTION
  The emission of semen, or sperm, at other times than in sexual intercourse. Dunglison. (more info) 1. The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.
• SELF-DELUSION
  The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
• SELF-ABUSE
  1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties. 2. Self-deception; delusion. Shak. 3. Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.
• CONCERT OF THE POWERS
  An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.
• SELF-DECEPTION
  Self-deceit.
• DISABUSE
  To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right. To undeceive and disabuse the people. South. If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves or artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition,