揉

Meaning

揉 centers on applying pressure with the hands to work something: rubbing, massaging, or kneading. The extended senses of vigorous debate, training, and worry all grow from the idea of working something over repeatedly until it softens or changes.

• 揉むもむ
  N2

  to rub; to crumple

• 揉めるもめる
  N2

  to disagree; to dispute; to fight (over)

• 揉め事もめごと

  quarrel; fight; trouble; dispute; friction; discord

• 揉み合いもみあい

  jostle; struggle; scuffle

• 揉みくちゃもみくちゃ

  jostling; being jostled; being mobbed; (in a) crush

• 手揉み茶てもみちゃ

  tea rolled by hand over a dryer (old production method); hand-rolled tea

• 揉まれるもまれる

  to be knocked about; to be tossed about; to be jostled

• 揉みくしゃもみくしゃ

  jostling; being jostled; being mobbed; (in a) crush

• 揉みくたもみくた

  jostling; being jostled; being mobbed; (in a) crush

• 揉みしだくもみしだく

  to crumple (up); to wrinkle

• 揉みほぐすもみほぐす

  to massage

• 揉み出すもみだす

  to squeeze out

• 揉み手もみで

  rubbing one's hands together

• 揉み揉みもみもみ

  massage; rub

• 揉み療治もみりょうじ

  (therapeutic) massage

• 揉み立てるもみたてる

  to crumple; to collapse

• 揉み返しもみかえし

  muscle pain caused in reaction to excess massaging

• 揉めもめ

  quarrel; trouble; dispute

• 揉捻じゅうねん

  rolling freshly picked tea-leaves; crushing tea

• 揉烏帽子もみえぼし

  soft, crumpled, unlacquered headwear (often worn by soldiers under their helmets from the Kamakura period onward)

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