The action of rubbing, kneading or hitting someone's body, to help the person relax, prepare for muscular action (as in contact sports) or to relieve aches.
Having a massage can have many beneficial effects.
The action of rubbing or kneading anything.
The baker gave the dough one final massage.
From French massage (noun), from masser (“to massage”) (borrowed around the end of the 18th century from Arabic مَسَّ (massa, “feel, touch”), or from Portuguese amassar) + -age. Cognate to German mass...
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Massage the kale to soften it before making the salad.
To manipulate (data, a document etc.) to make it more presentable or more convenient to work with.
News relating to public disturbances was systematically massaged [...].