0 present participle of massage
1 to rub and press someone's body with regular repeated movements, in order to relax them or to reduce stiffness or pain in the joints (= places where two bones are connected) or muscles:
Would you massage my shoulders?
2 to try to make facts or numbers appear better than they really are in order to deceive someone:
Higher-order conditions can be obtained by differentiating (6.17) and massaging the formulae with a great deal of (fairly unpleasant) algebra.
But before that stage is reached, a whole lot of massaging needs to be done.
Physical burdens, include the tasks of dressing and undressing, washing and massaging an elderly person, are physically draining and performed alongside a pre-existing daily work routine.
It accuses us of massaging the employment figures.
They must be not merely a means of creatively massaging unemployment figures.
They may use that terminology but there cannot be massaging of notified vacancies.
The accusation is that, to get the count down, the rough sleepers unit has been deliberately massaging those people who are sleeping rough.
But even that hefty figure is reached after a degree of massaging that would make a physiotherapist green with envy.
