Usually means: Rhythmic percussion using hands, stimulating.
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  1. tapotement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. tapotement: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tapotement: Vocabulary.com
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  6. Tapotement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. tapotement: Rhymezone
  8. tapotement: FreeDictionary.org
  9. tapotement: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  10. tapotement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. tapotement: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. tapotement: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tapotement: Dictionary.com

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  1. tapotement: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. tapotement: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  (massage) A form of massage involving hitting the body with various parts of one's hand.

Similar:
hacking, pounding, tapping, battement, malleation, thumping, hitting, hammering, pummeling, whacking, more...

Opposite:
effleurage, petrissage, friction, vibration, compression

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Similar:
hacking, pounding, tapping, battement, malleation, thumping, hitting, hammering, pummeling, whacking, more...

Opposite:
effleurage, petrissage, friction, vibration, compression



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